‘Video Replay: Families, films and fantasy’ as a transformational text: Commentary on Valerie Walkerdine's ‘Video Replay’.

Authors: Yates, C.

Journal: Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society

Volume: 15

Issue: 4

Pages: 404-411

ISSN: 1088-0763

DOI: 10.1057/pcs.2010.19

Abstract:

In this commentary I explore the significance of Valerie Walkerdine's paper ‘Video Replay: Families, Films and Fantasy’. I review its impact in 1986 and then discuss how some of its ideas about subjectivity and popular culture – specifically film - can be developed in the contemporary context. A recurring fantasy of Rocky II and its reception is that of social and psychological transformation. I address this theme by drawing on the work of Christopher Bollas to argue that Walkerdine's psychosocial analysis continues to facilitate, across a range of contexts, some of the transformational processes described in her article.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/29432/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/pcs.2010.19

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