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The Besieged Ego : Doppelgangers and Split Identity Onscreen / Caroline Ruddell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748692026
  • 9780748692033
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.409 22/ger
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Why Psychoanalysis? -- 2. The Ego in Freud and Lacan -- 3. The Monster Within -- 4. Gendering the Double -- 5 Doubled Up: Body Swapping, Multiple Performance and Twins in the Comedy Film -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692040','ISBN:9780748692033','ISBN:97807486920265']);Examines the representation of fragmentary identites in filmThe Besieged Ego critically appraises the representation, or mediation, of identity in film and television through a thorough analysis of doppelgangers and split or fragmentary characters. The prevalence of non-autonomous characters in a wide variety of film and television examples calls into question the very concept of a unified, 'knowable' identity. The form of the double, and cinematic modes and rhetorics used to denote fragmentary identity, is addressed in the book through a detailed analysis of texts drawn from a range of industrial, historical and cultural contexts. The doppelganger or double carries significant cultural meanings about what it means to be 'human' and the experience of identity as a gendered individual. The double also expresses in fictional form our problematic experience of the world as a social, and supposedly whole and autonomous, subject. The Besieged Ego therefore raises important questions about the representation of identity onscreen and concomitant issues regarding autonomy and what it means to be 'human'.Key FeaturesCharts a generic account of the double onscreenCase studies include horror, fantasy, comedy, Japanese and Korean film"
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748692033

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Why Psychoanalysis? -- 2. The Ego in Freud and Lacan -- 3. The Monster Within -- 4. Gendering the Double -- 5 Doubled Up: Body Swapping, Multiple Performance and Twins in the Comedy Film -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692040','ISBN:9780748692033','ISBN:97807486920265']);Examines the representation of fragmentary identites in filmThe Besieged Ego critically appraises the representation, or mediation, of identity in film and television through a thorough analysis of doppelgangers and split or fragmentary characters. The prevalence of non-autonomous characters in a wide variety of film and television examples calls into question the very concept of a unified, 'knowable' identity. The form of the double, and cinematic modes and rhetorics used to denote fragmentary identity, is addressed in the book through a detailed analysis of texts drawn from a range of industrial, historical and cultural contexts. The doppelganger or double carries significant cultural meanings about what it means to be 'human' and the experience of identity as a gendered individual. The double also expresses in fictional form our problematic experience of the world as a social, and supposedly whole and autonomous, subject. The Besieged Ego therefore raises important questions about the representation of identity onscreen and concomitant issues regarding autonomy and what it means to be 'human'.Key FeaturesCharts a generic account of the double onscreenCase studies include horror, fantasy, comedy, Japanese and Korean film"

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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