Projected shadows : psychoanalytic reflections on the representation of loss in European cinema / edited by Andrea Sabbadini.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Glen O. Gabbard -- Introduction / Andrea Sabbadini -- The night of melancholia and the daylight of mourning : Anne Fontaine's Comment j'ai tué mon père / T. Jefferson Kilne -- Quest for a lost mother : Alina Marazzi's Un'ora sola ti vorrei / Pietro Roberto Goisis -- Is there light at the end of the tunnel? : Keren Yedaya's Or (mon tresor) / Shimshon Wigoder and Emanuel Berman -- The anorexic paradox : Matteo Garrone's First love / Maria Vittoria Constantini and Paola Golinelli -- Reparation and the empathetic other : Christian Petzold's Wolfsburg / Ralf Zwiebel -- The talking cure from Freud to Almodóvar : Hable con ella / Andrea Sabbadini -- Intergenerational transmission : the Holocaust in Central European cinema / Catherine Portuges -- Cut and laced : traumatism and fetishism in Luis Bruñuel's Un chein andalou / Andrew Webber -- Two short films by Jan Svankmajer : Jabberwocky and Punch and Judy / Helen Taylor Robinson -- Compilation film as 'deferred action' : Vincent Monnikendam's Mother Dao, the turtle-like / Laura Mulvey -- Moving beyond the constraints of the mortal self : universal images of narcissism in Jan Troell's The flight of the eagle / Lissa Weinstein -- Tricycles, bicycles, life cycles : psychoanalytic perspectives on childhood loss and transgenerational parenting in Sylvain Chômer's Belleville rendez-vous / Alexander Stein -- Loss, mourning and desire in midlife : François Ozon's Under the sand and swimming pool / Diana Diamond -- Three sisters : sibling knots in Bergman's Cries and whispers / Andrea Sabbadini -- Time regained : the complex magic of reverse motion / Ian Christie.