How useful is psychoanalysis in helping us to understand the cinematic representation of women? Explore what Elisabeth Cowie writes about fantasy and psychoanalysis in relation to one of the Czechoslovakian New Wave films screened.

The film it could be Valerie and Her Weeks of Wonders by Jaromil Jireš or Daisies a film written and directed by Věra Chytilová. Also here is the bibliography that I've found 1. Kaplan, [login to view URL], ed. Psychoanalysis & Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2000. 2. Cowie, Elizabeth Recording Reality, Desiring the Real. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2011. 3. Lauretis, Teresa De. The Feminist Studies, Critical Studies (language, Discourse, Society). publication place: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988. 4. Doane, Mary Ann. The Desire to Desire: the Woman's Film of the 1940s. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987. 5. Doane, Mary Ann. Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge, 1991. 6. Hames, Peter A. The Czechoslovak New Wave (film and Media Studies). 2 ed. publication place: Wallflower Press, 2005. The freelancer that is going to write this essay doesn't need to study Film. I just want him/her to write an essay using good english and also to be able to write a proper academic essay and answer properly all the questions as well. It has to be done till 25/06/2013 I also added some files that they gave me from University.