(Paperback)

Analyzes a variety of contemporary films replete with psychoanalytic subject matter and styles. This title examines films that present elaborate fantasies and, through them, prompt the viewer to cut across a crippling fundamental fantasy - by enabling a mapping of his or her private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen.

(Hardback)

Analyzes a variety of contemporary films replete with psychoanalytic subject matter and styles. This title examines films that present elaborate fantasies and, through them, prompt the viewer to cut across a crippling fundamental fantasy - by enabling a mapping of his or her private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen.