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Cinema, theory, and political responsibility in contemporary culture /
This 1997 book explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of cultural studies. It applies the theories of Adorno, Derrida, and Lacan to film studies, and asks how political responsibility can be reconciled with the concept of the university as a democratic institution....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | Literature, culture, theory ;
24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Redeeming contradictions : from critical theory to cultural studies : Adorno, culture, and film
- Analyzing It's a wonderful life
- Aesthetic theory and political responsibility
- The method of cultural studies
- Lacan, sublimation, and The age of innocence
- Derrida and the responsibility of interpretation
- pt. 2. Art as the absolute commodity : the intersubjectivity of mimesis in Adorno's Aesthetic theory : The aesthetic thing
- Instrumental and communicative reason
- Mimesis
- Dialectical reason
- Appearance, apparition, and history
- Art's negative truth
- pt. 3. Sexual nations : history and the division of hope in The crying game : The culture industry
- The symptom
- Cinematic sutures
- Context and contradiction
- Aesthetic politics
- Misogyny, racism, and the death drive
- Nature, nation, and mimetic identification
- Subjectivity and narrative displacement
- The gaze, the mirror, and the masquerade
- Deconstructing the sexual difference
- Sexual nations
- Desire and hope
- pt. 4. Deconstruction and responsibility : the question of freedom in the place of the undecidable : Derrida and his critics
- Deconstructive politics and the university.