Tina Chanter resolves 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 and thereby take account of race, class,
gender, and sexuality. Chanter argues that abjection is the
unthought ground of fetishistic theories. If the feminine has been
the privileged excluded other of psychoanalytic theory, fueled by
the myth of castration and the logic of disavowal, when fetishism
is taken up by race theory, or cultural theory, the multiple and
fluid registers of abjection are obscured. 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
categories.
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