The Time of the Crime : Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film.
Title:
The Time of the Crime : Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film.
Author:
Torlasco, Domietta.
ISBN:
9780804786775
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (146 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Scene of the Crime -- "X Marks the Spot" -- Blow-up: Returning to the Scene of Perspective -- The Passenger: Vanishing -- 2. Desiring Death -- Intermittence -- The Night Porter: The Metamorphosis of the Crime Scene -- The Detective and the Witness -- 3 Seeing Time -- Skins of Color -- Oedipus Rex: The Depth of the Crime Scene -- The Face and the Landscape -- 4. Twilight -- The Line and the Labyrinth -- The Spider's Stratagem: The Truth of the Crime Scene -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
The Time of the Crime explores the undoing of the detective genre in the Italian art cinema of the sixties and seventies, using an approach that combines psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and aesthetics to redefine the task of film criticism.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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