The cinematic body /
In The Cinematic Body, Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder's gay sex icons and George Romero's flesh-eating zombies, The Cinematic Body cuts across disciplinary boundaries and seeks to engage new cur...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1993
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| Series: | Theory out of bounds ;
v. 2. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In The Cinematic Body, Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder's gay sex icons and George Romero's flesh-eating zombies, The Cinematic Body cuts across disciplinary boundaries and seeks to engage new currents in critical thought. Shaviro radically critiques the Lacanian model currently popular in film theory and film studies, arguing against that model's obsessive emphasis on the phallus, castration anxiety, sadistic master, ideology, and the structure of the signifier. In this groundbreaking volume, Shaviro effectively communicates a sense of the inescapable ambivalence and intensities of contemporary culture, ultimately affirming a thoroughly postmodern sensibility. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-272) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816685271 0816685274 9781299918122 1299918123 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
