Download or read book Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire written by V. Hausmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty , and The Elephant Man , Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language.