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This is a sophisticated piece of original research at the intersection of psychoanalysis and film studies. Carla Ambrosio Garcia brilliantly demonstrates why film theory's canonical accounts of spectatorial experience need to be revisited in the light of Wilfred Bion (and object-relations generally), and facilitates a productive thinking space for the ongoing discussion about how we might conceive of a revolutionary psychical metamorphosis in and through the experience of film. - Dr Andrew Asibong, Reader in Film and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, University of London Bion in Film Theory is that rare thing: a book that offers a renewed encounter between psychoanalysis and cinema. At once disciplined and productively wayward, this book opens up new ground for thinking about what we do when we use the environment created by a work of art: film, in this instance, but Garcia's intervention has a reach well beyond her immediate concerns. In particular, through her explorations of Bion's writings, the 'retreat' becomes a generative figure via which to reflect not only on what psychoanalysis can do to our understanding of the experience of film but, more broadly, the conditions of life and labour in the 21st century. At stake, in effect, is a question about the futures of human mind and being - and what cinema can contribute to our understanding of the forms of resistance made possible by retreat. - Vicky Lebeau, University of Sussex

Bion in Film Theory is that rare thing: a book that offers a renewed encounter between psychoanalysis and cinema. At once disciplined and productively wayward, this book opens up new ground for thinking about what we do when we use the environment created by a work of art: film, in this instance, but Garcia's intervention has a reach well beyond her immediate concerns. In particular, through her explorations of Bion's writings, the `retreat' becomes a generative figure via which to reflect not only on what psychoanalysis can do to our understanding of the experience of film but, more broadly, the conditions of life and labour in the 21st century. At stake, in effect, is a question about the futures of human mind and being - and what cinema can contribute to our understanding of the forms of resistance made possible by retreat. - Prof. Vicky Lebeau, Professor of English, University of Sussex This is a sophisticated piece of original research at the intersection of psychoanalysis and film studies. Carla Ambrosio Garcia brilliantly demonstrates why film theory's canonical accounts of spectatorial experience need to be revisited in the light of Wilfred Bion (and object-relations generally), and facilitates a productive thinking space for the ongoing discussion about how we might conceive of a revolutionary psychical metamorphosis in and through the experience of film. - Dr Andrew Asibong, Reader in Film and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, University of London Carla Ambrosio Garcia's fascinating book offers a new way of thinking about cinema, and its introduction of Bion to film studies ought to be both noticed and long lasting. - Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, Filmmaker and Reader in Film Practice and Theory, University of Bedfordshire

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Carla Ambrósio Garcia is a filmmaker and academic who completed her doctorate in Film Studies at King’s College London (funded by Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia in Portugal). Her articles on film and psychoanalysis have been published in academic journals and edited collections, and she currently teaches at King’s College and Royal Holloway, University of London.

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