In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, as well as current films such as Room, Green Room, and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Connelly shows that the source of enjoyment of confined spaces lies in the viewer's relationship to excess. Cinema of Confinement offers rich insights into the appeal of constricted filmic spaces at a time when one can easily traverse spatial boundaries within the virtual reality of cyberspace.
Author(s): Thomas J. Connelly
Series: Diaeresis
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 185
Tags: Arts: Cinema: Psychoanalysis: Space: Confinement: Kubrik: Hitchcock: Film
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Excess, the Gaze, and Cinema of Confinement......Page 14
1. Excess in Confinement in Room and Green Room......Page 28
2. Big Window, Big Other: Enjoyment and Spectatorship in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope......Page 40
3. Interior Confinement: Shattering and Disintegration in Ingmar Bergman’s The Passion of Anna......Page 54
4. It “Over- looks”: Movement and Stillness in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining......Page 73
5. “It’s Just a Show”? Paranoia and Provocation in Oliver Stone’s Talk Radio......Page 91
6. Voices, Telephones, and Confined Spaces: Phone Booth and Locke......Page 109
7. Captive, Captor, and Aliens: 10 Cloverfield Lane......Page 130
Conclusion: 127 Hours, The Wall, Panic Room, and Cyberspace......Page 148
Notes......Page 164
Index......Page 178
