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Title: Cinematic Body
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0816622949
EAN: 9780816622948
ISBN: 9780816622948
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 26/07/1993
Description:

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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 178mm
Item Width: 15mm
Author: Steven Shaviro
Genre: Society & Culture
Book Series: Theory Out of Bounds
Topic: Social Sciences, Films & TV
Release Year: 1993

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