The picture of abjection : film, fetish, and the nature of difference / Tina Chanter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chanter, Tina, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abjection in motion pictures.

Sex in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Film, fetish, and the nature of difference

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]

Summary:

In The Picture of Abjection, Tina Chanter addresses a fundamental problem in film theory by negotiating a middle path between "gaze theory" approaches to film and spectator studies or cultural theory approaches that emphasize the position of the viewer. Chanter argues that abjection is the unthought ground of fetishistic theories. By mobilizing a theory of abjection, the book shows how the appeal to phallic, fetishistic theories continues to reify the hegemonic categories of race, class, sexuality, and gender, as if they stood as self-evident.

Contents:

1 Abjection as the Unthought Ground of Fetishism 30

2 Abjection as the Failure of Protection against Emptiness: Narcissism, Negation, and Klein's Projective Identification 54

3 Abject Art: Destabilizing the Drive for Purification, and Unmasking the Foundational Fantasy of Castration 76

4 Fantasy at a Distance: The Revolt of Abjection 112

5 The Exotica-ization and Universalization of the Fetish, and the Naturalization of the Phallus: Abject Objections 151

6 Prohibiting Miscegenation and Homosexuality: The Birth of a Nation, Casablanca, and American History X 180

7 Abject Identifications in The Crying Game: The Mutual Implication of Transgender/Race/Nationalism/Class 216

8 The Fetishistic Temporality of Hegemonic Postcolonial Nationalist Narratives and the Traumatic Real of Abjection 249

9 Concluding Reflections on the Necrophilia of Fetishism 272.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-357) and index.

ISBN:

9780253349170

0253349176

9780253219183

0253219183

OCLC:

148984446