...Lynne Kirby Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Railroad Raiders (J. P. McGowan, 1917) Male Hysteria and Early Cinema Lynne Kirby Cinema as we know it, as an institution, as an entertainment based on the mass spectatorship of projected moving images...

...Constance Penley © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 The Story of Anna 0.:A Study on Hysteria (Terrel Seltzer, 1979) The Story of Anna 0.: A Study on Hysteria (Terrel Seltzer) Constance Penley “At the time of her falling ill [I 8 801, Fraulein Anna 0. was twenty-one years old...

... camera movement. Magnification of ordinary percepts, or a general and unpleasant accenting of objects in the visual field, is a common complaint in the phenomenology of mental illness, for example, in hysteria, obsession, phobia, and paranoia. An illness removes something from its ordinary context...

... through heroic deeds of masculine role fulfillment. Drawing on the modeling of masculine hysteria by both Mark S. Micale and Elaine Showalter, the article is also informed not only by Bessel van der Kolk's descriptions of post-traumatic stress disorder but also by theorizations of tears in the writings...

... , Sigmund . “Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria” (1905). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud vol. 7. Translated and edited by Strachey, James. London: Hogarth Press, 1953 . Freud , Sigmund . “On Narcissism: An Introduction” ( 1914 ). Standard...

... culture says I should be, I want to address the questions of hysteria and masculinity, particularly as they appear in the “Male Trouble” issue of Camera Obscura and as they pertain to the issue of male desire. The problem is, of course, that it’s often difficult...

..., white masculinity is not represented so much as an identity in our culture as what I will be calling a hysterical response to a perceived lack of identity. In its most rudimentary form, of course, hysteria is a symptomatic response to a crisis in identity. And, while I am arguing that both...

... masculinity, which do much more than merely reflect those shifts but rather attempt to solidify, contain or manage these new ideas of masculinity, often resulting, however, in overtly contradictory images. These images seem particularly organized around hysteria and masochism, two symptomatic...

... the “neuronal motion” which is supposedly charac- teristic of migraine are described as being “also, of course, the paths for sexual energy” (159). At this point then-while his investigations of hysteria are proceeding apace -one of Freud’s abiding concerns is with what he had come...

... read the Metaphysic of Morals and the categorical imperative and it doesn’t help me a bit. Mark Cousins Men and Women as Polarity Barbara Freeman lrigaray at the Symposium Hysteria, Writing, Literature Parveen Adams Symptoms...

... the brutal hero (e.g., Richardson’s Pameh). However, Modleski is least hopeful about the Harlequin’s utopian promises. She claims that these narratives place the reader into a kind of ‘ ‘split consciousness,” incite guilt feelings, and might actually induce female hysteria...

... on the screen nor the viewer- subject constructed in the television audience is a homogenous one: indeed, there is no “subject” to speak of. When Freud divided the neuroses of hysteria and obsession roughly along gender lines, hysteria aligned with the female and obsession...

... by Strachey, James. London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1962 . Freud , Sigmund . Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ). Standard Edition vol. 7 . Freud , Sigmund . “Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria” ( 1905 ). Standard Edition vol. 7...

... Negro made La neuropatologia, a series of films, now lost save for a few, that displayed various “neuropathologi- cal” cases.27 La neuropatologia constitutes a filmic version of the photographic spectacle of hysteria initiated by Charcot at the Salpetricre in Paris in the late 1870Speaking...

... brother. In the wake of this tragedy, Zeke repents and has a conversion experience. He then becomes a preacher with a great following; even Chick falls under his spell. But her religion turns out to be a kind of sexual hysteria, and she lures him away from his calling. She ends up cheating on him...

..., eds. Puro Teatro: A Latina Anthology. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2000. Schutzman, Mady. The Real Thing: Performance, Hysteria, and Advertising. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1999...

... loss, Jack puts a pillow under his sweater and poses in front of a mirror. What are we to make of such scenes? It would appear that “womb envy’’ and male hysteria are no longer latent thematics to be teased out by the psy- choanalytically-oriented feminist critic; such envy...

..., fantasmes des origines, origine du fantasme.”6 If, from the beginning of his work on hysteria and on the origins of hysterical fan- tasies, Freud finds hmself repeatedly caught between the oppositions real-imagined, objective-subjective, it is not necessarily due to an in- adequate...

... AllThatTelevisionAllows:TV Melodrama, Postmodernism and Consumer Culture. No.16; pp. 129-153. Kirby, Lynne Painting and Cinema: The Frames of Discourse. On Pascal Bonitzer's De• cadrages: Peinture et cinema. No.18; pp. 95-105. Male Hysteria and Early Cinema. No.17; pp. 113...

... film, melodrama represses certain questions; but unlike the former, it channels them into cin- ematic excess (9), constituting what Wimal Dissanayake describes as “a poetics of hyperbole.”8 In discussing Geoffrey Nowell-Smith’s application of the Freudian analysis of hysteria...