Beschreibung
For well over a century, films have exerted enormous influence. Viewers tend to identify unconsciously with the actors/actresses. The desire to become another, substituting identity by identification, can be traced to the illusion that the filmic heroes/heroines are immortal – identifying with them raises the possibility of gaining «deathlessness.»
Autorenportrait
Georg Schmid has taught modern and contemporary history, mainly at the University of Salzburg.
Inhalt
Contents: Fascination of cinema – Identification with actors/actresses – Participating in their immortality – Experimenting with the existential patterns offered – Film analysis – Film history – Semiotics – Psychoanalysis – Cultural anthropology.
