In this anthology, filmmakers, psychoanalysts, film scholars, and cultural historians use a psychoanalytical approach to examine Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film The Last Emperor (1988).
Bruce H. Sklarew is a faculty member at the Baltimore-Washington Institute for psychoanalysis and co-chair of the Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film. Bonnie S. Kaufman is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and a staff psychoanalyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Ellen Handler Spitz is a lecturer in psychiatry at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. She is the author of Art and Psyche (Vale University Press, 1985). Diane Borden is a faculty member at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and chair of the film program at University of the Pacific.