@article{772257,
      recid = {772257},
      author = {Tyrer, Ben,},
      title = {Out of the Past : Lacan and Film Noir /},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) },
      abstract = {This book presents a new reading of film noir through  psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by  Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to  film-philosophy, this book argues that, far from having  passed, the time for Lacan in Film Studies is only just  beginning. The chapters engage with Lacanian psychoanalysis  to perform a meta-critical analysis of the writing on noir  in the last seven decades and to present an original theory  of criticism and historiography for the cinema. The book is  also an act of mourning; for a lost past of the cinema, for  a longstanding critical tradition and for film noir. It  asks how we can talk about film noir when, in fact, film  noir doesn't exist. The answer starts with Lacan and a  refusal to relinquish psychoanalysis. Lacanian theories of  retroactivity and ontology can be read together with film  history, genre and narrative to show the ways in which  theory and history, past and present, cinema and  psychoanalysis are fundamentally knotted together. Tyrer  also explores Lacan through particular noir films, such as  Double Indemnity andThe Maltese Falcon -- and demonstrates  the possibilities for a Lacanian Film Studies (as one that  engages fully with Lacan's entire body of work) that has  hitherto not been realised. Ben Tyrer is Lecturer in Film  Studies at King's College London, UK. His research  interests include film theory, film-philosophy and Lacanian  psychoanalysis. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming  collection, titled Psychoanalytic Approaches to  Representing the Unrepresentable, and has published work in  Studies in French Cinema and Film-Philosophy, as well as  several edited collections on psychoanalysis, culture and  society. He is also co-coordinator of the Psychoanalysis in  Our Time research network, supported by the Nordic Summer  University.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/772257},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30942-2},
}