Sexual difference in European cinema

the curse of enjoyment

Fabio Vighi

Palgrave Macmillan

2009

Abstract

What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni and Bergman.

Cited authors

Lacan Jacques

Vighi Fabio