Women and Images of Men in Cinema: Gender Construction in La Belle et la Bête by Jean Cocteau

193 Pages·2015·1.01 MB·English

by  Andreas Hamburger

WOMEN AND IMAGES
OF MEN IN CINEMA

WOMEN AND IMAGES
OF MEN IN CINEMA
Gender Construction in L B
A ELLE
B by Jean Cocteau
ET LA ÊTE
Edited by
Andreas Hamburger
Originally published in Germany as Frauen- und Männerbilder im Kino:
Genderkonstruktionen in La Belle et la Bête von Jean Cocteau © Psychosozial-
Verlag, Giessen, www.psychosozial-verlag.de.
First published in English in 2015 by
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Copyright © 2015 to Andreas Hamburger for the edited collection, and to the
individual authors for their contributions.
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CONTENTS
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS vii
PART I: BEAUTIES AND BEASTS IN FILM
PSYCHOANALYSIS
CHAPTER ONE
Women and images of men in cinema 3
Andreas Hamburger
CHAPTER TWO
Psychoanalytical film interpretation—possibilities
and limitations 15
Wolfgang Mertens
CHAPTER THREE
Beautiful beasts—motif tradition and film psychoanalysis
in Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (F 1946) 43
Andreas Hamburger
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PART II: THE BEAUTIES
CHAPTER FOUR
La Belle, la Bête, et la rose 101
Andrea Sabbadini
CHAPTER FIVE
“You can’t say no to the Beauty and the Beast …” Or:
an ending and no beautiful beast 111
Christine Kirchhoff
PART III: THE BEASTS
CHAPTER SIX
Once upon a time—Beauty and the Beast—a surrealistic
survival attempt in the year 1946? 131
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
CHAPTER SEVEN
Coming over to the wild side: women’s yearning for
beastly encounters in the course of film history 145
Andreas Rost
INDEX 173
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
Andreas Hamburger is professor of psychology at the International
Psychoanalytic University, Berlin and psychoanalyst (DPG, DGPT,
Akademie für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Munich), writes on
literature, film, and psychoanalysis, among other topics. He is a mem-
ber of the Munich Work Group on Film and Psychoanalysis.
Christine Kirchhoff is junior professor of psychoanalytic cultural stud-
ies at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, and trainee at
the BPI, Karl Abraham Institute, Berlin.
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is professor of psychoanalysis in Kassel,
director of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt, and co-chair of the
IPA Research Committee. In addition to her extensive research work,
she publishes regularly on topics in film and literary psychoanalysis.
Wolfgang Mertens is professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the
Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, and author of numerous
standard works on psychoanalysis.
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viii ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
Andreas Rost, an art historian and film scholar, has taught at the
University of Television and Film, Munich, and the Ludwig Maximilian
University, Munich and worked as the film specialist for the Cultural
Department of the City Administration of Munich.
Andrea Sabbadini, psychoanalyst (IPA), was the editor of the film sec-
tion of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. In 2001, he founded the
European Psychoanalytic Film Festival held every two years in London,
which he directs.
Past and current programmes and publications of the Munich
Work Group on Film and Psychoanalysis can be retrieved at: www.
psychoanalyse-film.eu.
The editor and authors express their gratitude to Prof. Christa Rohde-
Dachser and the Stiftung zur Förderung der universitären Psychoan-
alyse [Foundation to Promote University Psychoanalysis], Berlin, for
funding the translation of this book into English.
PART I
BEAUTIES AND BEASTS IN FILM
PSYCHOANALYSIS