A (repeated) time to die: the investigation of primal trauma in the films of Dario Argento

Xavier Mendik

A (repeated) time to die: the investigation of primal trauma in the films of Dario Argento

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Abstract

This chapter uses psychoanalytic notions of compulsion repetition to consider representations of crime within the European cinema of Dario Argento, arguing that the role of transgressive flashbacks in the filmmaker's work points to wider problems of masculine subjectivity in his work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Crime Scenes
Subtitle of host publication	Detective Narratives in European Culture since 1945
Editors	Anne Mullen , Emer O'Beirne
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	Rodopi
Chapter	3
Pages	25–36
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	978-90-420-1233-2
Publication status	Published (VoR) - 1 Jan 2000

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A (repeated) time to die: the investigation of primal trauma in the films of Dario Argento

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