Lost Angels Psychoanalysis and Cinema Author:Vicky Lebeau 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... more » 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. River's Edge.« less