Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film

This distinctively interdisciplinary book draws upon psychoanalytic theory to explore how expectations, desires and fears of documentary subjects and filmmakers are engaged, and the ethical issues that can arise as a result.

Autorentext

Agnieszka Piotrowska, Ph.D., is an award-winning BBC-trained filmmaker and a theorist. She the Reader in film at SODA, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and a visiting professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Gdansk, Poland. She is the former head of the School for Film, Media, and the Performing Arts at the University for the Creative Arts. She is a member of the General Council of the Visible Evidence network and was the Director of the Visible Evidence conference at the University of Gdansk, Poland in 2022.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Cinema and Psychoanalysis: A Brief Overview 2. Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis and Documentary Film 3. Documentary Film: A Discourse of Desire 4. Documentary as Interpellation 5. The Conman and I: A Study in Transference 6. The Ethics of Documentary 7. The Ethics - What Ethics? 8. The Horror of the Doppelganger 9. Filmmaker as Deceiver in Stories We Tell 10. Final Concluding Remarks