Vol 39 (2) 2021
Editoriaal Shauni De Gussem en Janne Quintelier
ARTIKELS
Cinema’s paranoid tendencies Todd Gowan (full text online)
Entitled to eccentricities: guilt and desire in 1940s melodrama and in Thelma (Joachim Trier, 2017) Peter Verstraten
Van Freuds Bubikopf naar Lynch’ Eraserhead Abe Geldhof
Analysis, Hegel and the seventh art Kobe Keymeulen
“Compelled to imagine the worst” a conversation with Mary Wild and Jasper Vrancken Shauni De Gussem and Janne Quintelier
“COMPELLED TO IMAGINE THE WORST” A CONVERSATION WITH MARY WILD AND JASPER VRANCKEN
This interview investigates the personal views from podcaster and lecturer Mary Wild, and filmmaker Jasper Vrancken on how they make possible a dialogue between the field of film theory and psychoanalytic theory, about their singular interpretation of psychoanalysis...
ANALYSIS, HEGEL AND THE SEVENTH ART
Summary: This paper investigates the significance of filmic analysis in the contemporary theoretical paradigm inspired by Slavoj Žižek, which we term ‘Transcendental Materialism’. After characterising its distinct peculiarities within the history of psychoanalysis and...
VAN FREUDS BUBIKOPF NAAR LYNCH’ ERASERHEAD
Samenvatting: In ‘Van Freuds Bubikopf naar Lynch' Eraserhead’ onderzoekt Geldhof hoe Freud zich verhield tot de cinema als kunstvorm. Freud was uitgesproken negatief, getuige zijn vernietigende kritiek op het project van Pabst om een gevalstudie te verfilmen. Volgens...
ENTITLED TO ECCENTRICITIES: GUILT AND DESIRE IN 1940S MELODRAMA AND IN THELMA (JOACHIM TRIER, 2017)
Summary: In her study The Desire to Desire, the feminist film scholar Mary Ann Doane examines how a potential excess of female desire in 1940s melodramas is neutralized with the help of either a male ‘medical gaze’ or a male musician and his ear. The philosopher...
CINEMA’S PARANOID TENDENCIES
Summary: Many theorists have championed absence within and without the filmic image as a site of cinematic radicality, but it is possible for absence to hide an obscure authority. When this occurs, filmic absence functions as a support for the development of paranoia....