{"product_id":"traversing-the-fantasy-9781501385810","title":"Traversing the Fantasy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTraversing the Fantasy: The Dialectic of Desire\/Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a new and comprehensive model of spectatorship at the heart of which it draws an analogy between the ethics of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the ethics of narrative film. It demonstrates how spectators engage with narrative film, undergoing unconscious processes that generate a shift in the adherence to fantasies that impede assuming responsibility for one''s fate and well being. The authors discuss the affinities that the ontology and aesthetics of narrative film share with subjective, unconscious processes, offering new insights into the popular appeal of narrative film, through three film corpora, analyzed at length: body-character-breach films; dreaming-character films; and gender-crossing films. With a range of case studies from the old (\u003ci\u003eRebecca, Vertigo, Some Like it Hot\u003c\/i\u003e) to the new (\u003ci\u003eBeing John Malkovich, A Fantastic Woman\u003c\/i\u003e), Sandra Meiri and Odeya Kohen Raz build on psychoanalytic ideas about the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTraversing the Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e is an epochal engagement with the ethics of cinemagoing. By elaborating on the central role that fantasy has in the cinema, Sandra Meiri and Odeya Kohen-Raz make clear the ethical stakes in play every time we see a film. By taking fantasy as the starting point, they produce an ethical system that permits spectators how a given film asks them to relate to their own desire. The final result of \u003ci\u003eTraversing the Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e is a psychoanalytic conception of cinema that allows us to completely reimagine what is at stake when we see a film. * Todd McGowan, Professor of Film, University of Vermont, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTraversing the Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e is the finest book on psychoanalysis and cinema I have read for many years. Meiri and Kohen-Raz propose a remarkable range of original arguments on the nature of cinematic desire. In doing so, they offer an engaging critique of the current orthodoxies of film theory. Of particular note is the authors’ championing of narrative cinema as generator of intersecting conflicts in which viewers engage with fantasy and desire in ways that are captivating, confronting, and potentially liberating. * Richard Rushton, Lancaster University, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   \u003cb\u003ePart I: Body-Character-Breach Films \u003c\/b\u003e Chapter 1 – Desire, Fantasy, and the Ontology of Film Chapter 2 –Traversing the Fantasy: Body-Character-Breach Films  \u003cb\u003ePart II: Dreaming-Character Films\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter 3 – Dreams in Films and Implicit Reflexivity  Chapter 4 – Cinematography, Subjectivity, and Guilt  \u003cb\u003ePart III: Gender-Crossing Films\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter 5 – This Gender That is Mine: Feminine Enjoyment and Self-Creation Chapter 6 – From “Inherent Transgression” to the Body as “Semiotc \u003ci\u003eChora\u003c\/i\u003e\"   Appendix Notes References Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019961598295,"sku":"9781501385810","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501385810.jpg?v=1750781891","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/traversing-the-fantasy-9781501385810","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}