The double: identity and difference in art since 1900

Abstract

"From ancient mythology to today's cinema, the motif of the double--which repeats, duplicates, mirrors, inverts, splits, and reenacts--has captured our imaginations. The Double examines this intriguing concept from four perspectives: Seeing Double, Reversal, Dilemma, and the Divided and Doubled Self. Authors James Meyer, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tom Gunning, W.J.T. Mitchell, Hillel Schwartz, Shawn Michelle Smith, and Andrew Solomon consider the double in terms of ethics, psychoanalysis, double consciousness, the queer double, and the doppelgänger in silent cinema."-- Publisher's description, lower cover.

Contents

Director's Foreword -- The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900 / James Meyer -- Plates -- On the Double / W.J.T. Mitchell -- All Art is Doubling: Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and the Collapse of the Binary / Andrew Solomon -- No, We Are Not Sisters: Episodes of Nonidentical Queer Doubles / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Twoness: Photography on the Color Line / Shawn Michell Smith -- Ghostly Ontologies: The Cinematic Double in Silent Film / Tom Gunning -- One More Than One / Hillel Schwartz -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.