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The Picture of Abjection

Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference

  • Paperback
  • 384 pages
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

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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 continue to reify the hegemonic categories of race, class, sexuality, and gender, as if they stood as self-evident categories.
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  • Author

    Tina Chanter

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Indiana University Press

  • Published

    January 2008

  • Weight

    550g

  • Page Count

    384

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780253219183

  • ISBN-10

    0253219183

  • Eden Code

    4567850

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