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"In looking at film from a Lacanian angle, Cinema of Confinement makes a strong contribution to the expanding critical literature on Lacan and cinema. The book shows exceptional knowledge of film as a language, inclusive of its unconscious underpinnings. The author moves very confidently among different filmic genres and aesthetic registers, demonstrating remarkable analytical skills. A great book with some interpretive gems."" — Fabio Vighi, author of Critical Theory and Film: Rethinking Ideology through Film Noir"

In looking at film from a Lacanian angle, Cinema of Confinement makes a strong contribution to the expanding critical literature on Lacan and cinema. The book shows exceptional knowledge of film as a language, inclusive of its unconscious underpinnings. The author moves very confidently among different filmic genres and aesthetic registers, demonstrating remarkable analytical skills. A great book with some interpretive gems. - Fabio Vighi, author of Critical Theory and Film: Rethinking Ideology through Film Noir

Connelly's Cinema of Confinement provides an enjoyable and detailed analysis of films taking place in a single location, and tensions arising from excesses of the gaze, where spatial limits are imposed upon our desire. Using cinema to explain the relationship between space and lack, Connellyprovides an important theoretical model for more broadly interpreting the spatial limits of desire in our new media environments. --Matthew Flisfeder, University of Winnipeg Connelly's Cinema of Confinement, far from being a confining read is a wonderful exposition of how cinema's articulation of psychic and physical spaces and temporalities engage our pleasure and anguish. Through a number of contemporary and classic films Connelly provokes the reader to consider cinema as affective, surprising and rich in shifting parameters. His architecture of film-space propels us towards entering into a film rather than just watching it. Here Connelly takes up the psychoanalytic project of Zizek, McGowan and Copjec, to remind us through nuanced and sharp critical insights, that cinema's language of space provides for the ongoing pleasure of subjective reconnaissance. --Cindy Zeiher, School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand In looking at film from a Lacanian angle, Cinema of Confinement makes a strong contribution to the expanding critical literature on Lacan and cinema. The book shows exceptional knowledge of film as a language, inclusive of its unconscious underpinnings. The author moves very confidently among different filmic genres and aesthetic registers, demonstrating remarkable analytical skills. A great book with some interpretive gems. --Fabio Vighi, author of Critical Theory and Film: Rethinking Ideology through Film Noir

Connelly's Cinema of Confinement, far from being a confining read is a wonderful exposition of how cinema's articulation of psychic and physical spaces and temporalities engage our pleasure and anguish. Through a number of contemporary and classic films Connelly provokes the reader to consider cinema as affective, surprising and rich in shifting parameters. His architecture of film-space propels us towards entering into a film rather than just watching it. Here Connelly takes up the psychoanalytic project of Zizek, McGowan and Copjec, to remind us through nuanced and sharp critical insights, that cinema's language of space provides for the ongoing pleasure of subjective reconnaissance. --Cindy Zeiher, School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand In looking at film from a Lacanian angle, Cinema of Confinement makes a strong contribution to the expanding critical literature on Lacan and cinema. The book shows exceptional knowledge of film as a language, inclusive of its unconscious underpinnings. The author moves very confidently among different filmic genres and aesthetic registers, demonstrating remarkable analytical skills. A great book with some interpretive gems. --Fabio Vighi, author of Critical Theory and Film: Rethinking Ideology through Film Noir

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Thomas J. Connelly is a visiting assistant professor in the Media Studies Department at Pomona College.

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