Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language.

Autorentext
VINCENT J. HAUSMANN is an Associate Professor of English at Furman University, South Carolina, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire Envisioning the (W)hole World Behind Things in Sam Mendes's American Beauty Burning Transmission: Stilling Psychic Space in Gore Verbinski's The Ring Turning into Another Thing: David Lynch's The Elephant Man Inscribing the Dream of Otherness at the End of the World Conclusion: Up with Dead People?