- Description
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Summary
- 'The Besieged Ego' critically appraises the representation of identity in contemporary film and television, with a focus on doppelgangers, doubling and split or fragmentary characters. The prevalence of non-autonomous characters in a wide variety of film and television products calls into question the very concept of a unified, 'knowable' identity. The form of the double, and cinematic modes and rhetorics used to denote fragmentary identity, is addressed in this book through a detailed analysis of texts drawn from a range of industrial and cultural contexts, but with particular attention paid to contemporary media.
- Uniform Title
- Besieged ego (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Besieged ego (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]-140), filmography (pages [141]-142) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2013481659
- OCLC
- ssj0001153407
- Author
Ruddell, Caroline.
- Title
The besieged ego [electronic resource] : doppelgangers and split identity onscreen / Caroline Ruddell.
- Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]-140), filmography (pages [141]-142) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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