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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826383503321

Autore

Verstraten Peter

Titolo

Dutch post-war fiction film through a lens of psychoanalysis / / Peter Verstraten [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (482 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Framing film

Disciplina

791.4309492

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Netherlands - History - 20th century

Psychoanalysis and motion pictures - Netherlands

Motion pictures - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Spitting Images, Blind Spots, and Dark Mirrors -- CHAPTER 2. In the Name of Fathers – Overbearing, Flying, or Otherwise -- CHAPTER 3. That Obscure Object of Desire -- CHAPTER 4. From Ordinary Men and Rabbles to Heroes -- CHAPTER 5. Paranoia, Psychosis, The Horrific-Fantastic -- CHAPTER 6. Passages à l’Acte -- CHAPTER 7. From Historical Discomfort to Historical Trauma -- CHAPTER 8. Aphanisis -- CHAPTER 9. Hysteria, Neurosis, Perversion -- Epilogue -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FILMOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF CONCEPTS -- INDEX OF FILMS -- INDEX OF NAMES

Sommario/riassunto

Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis is a sequel to Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film (AUP, 2016), but the two studies can be read separately. Because of the sheer variety of Fons Rademakers's oeuvre, which spans 'art' cinema and cult, genre film and historical epics, each chapter will start with one of his titles to introduce a key concept from psychoanalysis. It is an oft-voiced claim that Dutch cinema strongly adheres to realism, but psychoanalytic theories on desire and fantasy are employed to put this idea into perspective. In the vein of cinephilia, this study brings together canonical titles (ALS TWEE DRUPPELS WATER; SOLDAAT VAN ORANJE) and little gems (MONSIEUR HAWARDEN; KRACHT). It juxtaposes among others GLUCKAUF and DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER



(on father figures); FLANAGAN and SPOORLOOS (on rabbles and heroes); DE AANSLAG and LEEDVERMAAK (on historical traumas); ANTONIA and BLUEBIRD (on aphanisis)