The Erotic Screen: Desire, Addiction and Perversity in Cinema

Author(s) : Thomas Wolman

The Erotic Screen: Desire, Addiction and Perversity in Cinema

Book Details

  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : 2020
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 256
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 94841
  • ISBN 13 : 9781912691272
  • ISBN 10 : 9781912691

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements
About the author

Introduction

Part I: The Nature of Desire in a Trio of Science Fiction Thrillers

CHAPTER ONE
The Object of Desire: The Thing from Another World

CHAPTER TWO
The sleep of desire: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

CHAPTER THREE
Female sexuality in Alien

Part II: Portraits of Addiction in Hollywood Melodrama

CHAPTER FOUR
Psychoanalytic Observations on the Depiction of Greed in Two Hollywood Movies: The Maltese Falcon and Wall Street

CHAPTER FIVE
The Psychic Under-pinning of Alcoholism: The Lost Weekend, The Days of Wine and Roses, and Leaving Las Vegas

Part III: Perverse Desire in Mainstream Cinema

CHAPTER SIX
The S and M Cure in Secretary

CHAPTER SEVEN
Sexual Undertow in Little Children

CHAPTER EIGHT
The Camera as Psychotic Object in Peeping Tom

References

Index

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