Women and Images of Men in Cinema - Gender Construction in La Belle et la Bete by Jean Cocteau (Paperback)

Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The film-psychoanalytic approach reveals how movies subliminally influence unconscious reception. On the other hand, the movie is embedded in a cultural tradition: Jean Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bete (1946) takes up the classic motif of the animal groom from the story of Cupid and Psyche in Apuleius' The Golden Ass (originally a tale about the stunning momentum of genuine female desire), liberates it from its baroque educational moral (a girl's virtue and prudence will help her to overcome her sexual fears), and turns it into a boyhood story: inside the ugly rascal there is a good, but relatively boring prince - at least in comparison to the monsters of film history. In the seventy years since it was made, La Belle et la Bete has inspired numerous interpretations and has been employed by theorists of all genres and interests.

General

Imprint:	Karnac Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Andreas Hamburger
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-78220-290-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Promotions
LSN:	1-78220-290-0
Barcode:	9781782202905

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