Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema

Paul Coates is Professor in the Film Studies Department of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His books include The Story of the Lost Reflection (1985), The Gorgon's Gaze (1991), Lucid Dreams: the Cinema of Krzysztof Kie?lowski (ed.) (1999), Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy (2003), The Red and the White: The Cinema of People's Poland (2005) and Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image (2010). In 1997 he became only the second Film Studies academic to give a series of Gauss seminars at Princeton University. His Screening the Face was published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan.

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Neither Here Nor There 1. Doubles and the Shadows in Plato's Cave 2. Extensions of the Self 3. Doubling, Distance and Instruments of Peceptions 4. In and Out of the Shadows of Noir 5. Cowboys and Aliens Works Cited Index