Like a film : ideological fantasy on screen, camera, and canvas / Timothy Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Timothy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Motion pictures and the arts.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Timothy Murray discusses relations between artistic practice, sexual and racial politics, theory and cultural studies through an examination of film, photography and art.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION Ideological fantasy in reverse projection; LIKE A FILM Reopening the case of the missing penis with Rainer, Silverman and Torok; PHOTO-MEDUSA Roland Barthes Incorporated; DIRTY STILLS Arcadian retrospection, cinematic hieroglyphs, and blackness run riot in Olivier's Othello; DIRTIER STILL? Wistful gazing and homographic hieroglyphs in Jarman's Caravaggio; WHAT'S HAPPENING? Lyotard writes art; ALLEGORIZING 'CONTENT' Metaphysical contradictions in the Harrisons' Lagoon Cycle; ON THE LINE; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-255) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-90051-1

9786613917447

1-134-90052-X

1-283-60499-X

1-280-14486-6

0-203-97681-9

9780203976814

OCLC:

275185378