Expectations by Brenda Novak

Expectations by Brenda Novak

Re-reading Freud's writing on femininity, fantasy and social identification, Lost Angels expands the psychoanalytic framework within which contemporary debates regarding fantasy and spectatorship have been taking place.

Vicky Lebeau takes Freud's preoccupation with femininity and feminine fantasy as her starting point and goes on to explore his differentiation between masculine and feminine forms of fantasy through feminist and critical theories of spectatorship and cinema.

Investigating how psychoanalysis explains fantasy as a form of preoccupation which cuts across both 'private' and 'public' forms of fantasy, Lebeau links discussion of the female spectator with the so-called 'malaise' of today's mass culture through her close readings of three key 'youth' films of the 1980's - John Hughes' Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Francis Coppola's Rumble Fish and Tim Hunter's River's Edge.

Lost Angels is a ground-breading addition to current feminist film theory and essential reading for all students of film.

Novak, Brenda: - BRENDA NOVAK and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are the proud parents of five children--three girls and two boys. When she's not spending time with her family or writing, Brenda is usually working on her annual fund-raiser for diabetes research, a cause for which she's raised $2.6 million so far. Her novels have made the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists and won many awards, including eight Rita nominations, the Book Buyer's Best, the Book Seller's Best and the National Reader's Choice Award.

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ISBN 13	9780373708994
ISBN 10	0373708998
Title	Expectations
Author	Brenda Novak
Series	9 Months Later Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2002-02-15
Number of pages	298
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