TY - BOOK ID - 80833335 TI - The Besieged Ego PY - 2022 SN - 9780748692033 0748692037 9780748692040 0748692045 9780748697052 0748697055 9780748692026 0748692029 PB - Edinburgh DB - UniCat KW - Doubles in motion pictures. KW - Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures KW - Doppelgänger in motion pictures KW - Doppelgängers in motion pictures UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80833335 AB - The Besieged Ego critically appraises the representation, or mediation, of identity in film and television through a thorough analysis of doppelgangers and split or fragmentary characters. The prevalence of non-autonomous characters in a wide variety of film and television examples calls into question the very concept of a unified, 'knowable' identity. The form of the double, and cinematic modes and rhetorics used to denote fragmentary identity, is addressed in the book through a detailed analysis of texts drawn from a range of industrial, historical and cultural contexts. The doppelganger or ER -