The Besieged Ego

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The Besieged Ego is written by Caroline Ruddell and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0748697055 (ISBN 10) and 9780748697052 (ISBN 13).

'The Besieged Ego' appraises the representation of identity in contemporary film and television, focusing on doppelgangers, doubling and split or fragmentary characters. The prevalence of non-autonomous characters in a wide variety of film and television products 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 book through a detailed analysis of texts drawn from a range of industrial and cultural contexts, but with particular attention paid to contemporary media.