June Mathis's Valentino Scripts: Images of Male "Becoming" After the Great War

This article examines the place of film comedy in Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis. It takes as its starting point Lacan's most extensive consideration of a single film, the comedy Never on Sunday (1960) directed by Jules Dassin. It places Lacan's reading of the film in relation to his other interventions on cinema, which are scattered through his seminars, and are more numerous and heterogeneous than generally assumed. It shows how the analysis contributes to Lacan's articulation of a theory of comedy in The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, a seminar best known for its treatment of Antigone and tragic drama. The article then locates this theory of comedy and reading of Never on Sunday in relation to key concepts of The Ethics such as jouissance and the moral good(s). It finishes by proposing a general model of Lacanian reading as 'cut' rather than interpretation.

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Cinema Journal Annotated Index to Volume 50

Andrae¹,

Smith²,

Bu³

2011

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June Mathis's Valentino Scripts: Images of Male "Becoming" After the Great War

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