F. Vighi 
Sexual Difference in European Cinema 
The Curse of Enjoyment

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I: THE COMFORT OF FANTASIES Sublime Objects: The Antinomies of Masculine Sexuality from Fellini to Truffaut Ethics of Drive: On Beauty and its Enjoyment from Rohmer to Pasolini Unbearable Freedoms: The Real of Sexual Difference from Rossellini to Fassbinder PART II: VARIATIONS ON FEMININE ENJOYMENT In the Beginning was Enjoyment: The Emergence of Feminine Desire in Bergman and Antonioni About Nothing, with Precision: Femininity Unbound from Ophuls to Antonioni In Film Beyond Film: On the Ontological Primacy of Woman Conclusion Bibliography Index

Über den Autor

FABIO VIGHI teaches Italian and European Cinema at Cardiff University, UK. He is author of
Le ragioni dell’altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2001),
Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film (2005),
Žižek Beyond Foucault (2007, with Heiko Feldner) and
Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (2007, edited with Heiko Feldner).