The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan

Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Near Fine. xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound glossy photo-illustrated wraps. Book Conditions: very light signs of handling else fine, interior bright and unmarked. Contents: Fantasy and showing too much -- Theoretical fantasizing -- The politics of cinematic fantasy -- Early explorations of fantasy -- The coldness of Kubrick -- Spike Lee's fantasmatic explostions -- Michael Mann and the ethics of excess -- The bankruptcy of fantasy in Fellini -- Desire and not showing enough -- Theoretical desiring -- The politics of cinematic desire -- The impossible object of the Nouvelle Vague -- The banality of Orson Welles -- Claire Denis and the other's failure to enjoy -- Political desire in Italian neorealism -- The intermixing of desire and fantasy -- The theoretical opposition -- The politics of the cinema of integration -- The ordinary cinema of Ron Howard -- Steven Spielberg's search for the father -- D.W. Griffith's suspense -- Films that separate -- The separation of desire and fantasy -- Theorizing the real -- The politics of the cinema of intersection -- The overlapping worlds of Andrei Tarkovsky -- Alain Resnais between the present and the past -- Wim Wnders and the ethics of fantasizing -- The sexual relationship with David Lynch.