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Fetishism and Curiosity - Cinema and the Mind's Eye (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Fetishism and Curiosity - Cinema and the Mind's Eye (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Series: BFI Silver
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Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the
most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists,
credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and
feminism. Part of the pathbeating 1970s generation of British film
theorists and independent film-makers, she came to prominence with
her classic essay on the pleasures - and displeasures - of
narrative cinema, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. She went
on to make her own avant-garde films, co-directed with Peter
Wollen, and to write further, greatly influential works - including
this one. Fetishism and Curiosity contains writings which range
from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane and Blue Velvet, to an extended
engagement with the creations of Native American artist Jimmie
Durham and the feminist photographer Cindy Sherman. Essays explore
the concept of fetishism as developed by Marx and Freud, and how it
relates to the ways in which artistic texts work. Mulvey returns to
some of the knottier issues in contemporary cultural theory,
especially the links between looking, fantasy and theorisation on
the one hand, and the processes of historical change on the other.
What are the modes of address that characterise 'societies of the
spectacle'? How might 'curiosity' be directed towards deciphering
the politics of popular culture? These are just some of the
questions raised in this brilliant and subtle collection. Published
as part of the BFI Silver series, this new edition of Mulvey's
classic work of feminist theory features a new, specially
commissioned introduction and stills from the films discussed.
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