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11%OFFLisa Cartwright - Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child - 9780822341949 - V9780822341949
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Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child

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Description for Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child Paperback. Lisa Cartwright contributes to feminist film theory by developing a new psychoanalytic theory of spectatorship and human subjectivity. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Why were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s? In Moral Spectatorship, Lisa Cartwright rethinks the politics of spectatorship in film studies. Returning to impasses reached in late-twentieth-century psychoanalytic film theory, she focuses attention on theories of affect and object relations seldom addressed during that period. Cartwright offers a new theory of spectatorship and the human subject that takes into account intersubjective and affective relationships and technologies facilitating human agency. Seeking to expand concepts of representation beyond the visual, she develops her ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822341949
SKU
V9780822341949
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About Lisa Cartwright
Lisa Cartwright is Professor of Communication and Science Studies and a faculty member in Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture, a coauthor of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, and a coeditor of The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science.

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Uncovering alternative traditions in the psychoanalytic study of affect and object relations, while pairing them with deep explorations of American and continental moral philosophy, Lisa Cartwright proposes a series of arguments that will radically remap our understanding of spectatorship and identification. Moral Spectatorship is a path-breaking book and perhaps the first entirely new approach to subject, empathy, and affect in ... Read more

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