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Sexual Difference in European Cinema

The Curse of Enjoyment

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Fabio Vighi

    1. School of European Studies, Cardiff University, UK

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What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni and Bergman.

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Fabio Vighi
      Pages 1-14

  4. Variations on Feminine Enjoyment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. In the Beginning was Enjoyment: the Emergence of Feminine Desire in Bergman and Antonioni

      • Fabio Vighi
      Pages 149-175

    3. About Nothing, with Precision: Femininity Unbound from Ophuls to Antonioni

      • Fabio Vighi
      Pages 176-202

    4. In Film Beyond Film: the Ontological Primacy of Woman

      • Fabio Vighi
      Pages 203-236

    5. Conclusion

      • Fabio Vighi
      Pages 237-241

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 242-258
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'Fabio Vighi has not simply redefined European cinema but has opened up an entire field of study. This book begins to fill the immense lacuna within contemporary film studies surrounding recent developments in Lacanian theory. The interpretations that he provides offer a radical rethinking of Rohmer, Fellini, Antonioni, Bergman, and many other important directors. After Sexual Difference in European Cinema , what's at stake in the work of these directors becomes truly apparent for the first time.' - Todd McGowan, University of Vermont, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of European Studies, Cardiff University, UK

    Fabio Vighi

About the author

FABIO VIGHI teaches Italian and European Cinema at Cardiff University, UK. He is author of Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001), Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film (2005), Žižek Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner) and Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (2007, edited with Heiko Feldner).

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