Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Laura Mulvey, Molly Haskell, Semiotics
23 Apr 2014
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Week 14 - introduction to psychoanalytic and feminist film theories lecture outline: Prevalence of psychoanalytic theories in the twentieth century. These two were highly influential on thought during their time. Postmodern theorists attacked these theories, but their theories remained dominant. 1895: lumi re bros. discovered the film projector and had the screening and freud"s studies on hysteria. Last only as long as you are in the dark watching the movie. (like sleeping and waking up) hollywood used to be called the dream factory. Freud read his patients dreams, and people began to apply this to films, film critiques watched films to understand the cultural aspect to them. Whether a dream or a film, there is never a right reading. Freud was offered a lot of money to write a screenplay but he declined the offer. Influence of psychoanalysis (quacks or villans) on filmmakers and screenwriters.
