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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shaviro, Steven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1993
Series:Theory out of bounds ; v. 2.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 276 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-272) and index.
ISBN:9780816685271
0816685274
9781299918122
1299918123