Women and Images of Men in Cinema

Gender Construction in La Belle et la Bete by Jean Cocteau

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Edited by Andreas Hamburger

Type

Essays

Subject

One Film > Beauty and the Beast

Keywords

Jean Cocteau, gender, women, psychoanalysis

Publishing date

2015

Publisher

Karnac Books

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 192 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78220-290-5

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Book Presentation:
Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The film-psychoanalytic approach reveals how movies subliminally influence unconscious reception. On the other hand, the movie is embedded in a cultural tradition: Jean Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bete (1946) takes up the classic motif of the animal groom from the story of Cupid and Psyche in Apuleius' The Golden Ass (originally a tale about the stunning momentum of genuine female desire), liberates it from its baroque educational moral (a girl's virtue and prudence will help her to overcome her sexual fears), and turns it into a boyhood story: inside the ugly rascal there is a good, but relatively boring prince - at least in comparison to the monsters of film history. In the seventy years since it was made, La Belle et la Bete has inspired numerous interpretations and has been employed by theorists of all genres and interests.

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