Author | : Thomas J. Connelly |
File Size | : 46,8 Mb |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 15 February 2019 |
ISBN | : 9780810139237 |
Pages | : 227 pages |
Cinema of Confinement by Thomas J. Connelly Book PDF Summary
In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, as well as current films such as Room, Green Room, and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Connelly shows that the source of enjoyment of confined spaces lies in the viewer's relationship to excess. Cinema of Confinement offers rich insights into the appeal of constricted filmic spaces at a time when one can easily traverse spatial boundaries within the virtual reality of cyberspace.