Alison Horbury

The real gaze in Australian cinema

Alison Horbury

Journal article  |  2020  |  Studies in Australasian Cinema

This paper takes up Todd McGowan’s rethinking of psychoanalytic film theory to consider what such approaches might disclose in the..

A psychoanalytic ethics of the pornographic aesthetic

A Horbury

Journal article  |  2019  |  Porn Studies

In his seminar on ethics, Lacan examines how certain forms of art reveal desire to us in ways that allow us to affirm and better h..

A PSYCHOANALYTIC ETHICS FOR SCREEN AESTHETICS? THE CASE OF SPRING BREAKERS

Alison Horbury

Journal article  |  2019  |  CINEMA-JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE

In The Ethics of Psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan posits the work of the psychoanalytic clinic as an ‘ethics of the singular’: a pract..

The Tragedy of True Detective Season Two: Living Our “Least Favorite Lives”

A Horbury

Book Chapter  |  2018

What Does Feminism Want?

A Horbury

Journal article  |  2017  |  Continental Thought & Theory A journal of Intellectual Freedom

Postfeminism and the Fatale Figure in Neo Noir Cinema

Alison Horbury

Journal article  |  2016  |  AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST STUDIES

Digital feminisms and the split subject: Short-circuits through Lacan's four discourses

Alison Horbury

Journal article  |  2016  |  CM: Communication and Media

Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television: The Persephone Complex

A Horbury

Book  |  2015

Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post..

Persephone in Heroine Television: The Post-feminist Impasse

Alison Horbury

Book Chapter  |  2015

Conclusion: The Persephone Complex

Alison Horbury

Book  |  2015