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The cinematic body / Steven Shaviro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaviro, Steven.
- Series:
- Theory out of bounds ; v. 2.
- Theory out of bounds ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
- Motion pictures.
- Film criticism--Philosophy.
- Film criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993 (1994 printing)
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder's gay sex icons and George Romero's flesh-eating zombies, Shaviro radically critiques the Lacanian model currently popular in film theory and film studies, arguing against that model's obsessi
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; I: Film Theory and Visual Fascination; II: Contagious Allegories: George Romero; III: Comedies of Abjection: Jerry Lewis; IV: Bodies of Fear: David Cronenberg; V: Masculinity, Spectacle, and the Body of Querelle; VI: Warhol's Bodies; VII: A Note on Bresson; VIII: Conclusions; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8527-4
- OCLC:
- 229431584
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