This collection explores the concepts of fetishism as developed by Marx and Freud. With cinema as her main consideration, Mulvey investigates the Hollywood cinema produced by the studio system. Amongst other topics, she includes an analysis of the films "Citizen Kane", "Xala" and "Blue Velvet".
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-0-85170-547-7 (9780851705477)
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Introduction: Fetishisms.Part 1 What price Hollywood? Americanitis - European intellectuals and Hollywood melodrama; social hieroglyphics - reflections on Two films by Douglas Sirk; close-ups and commodities. Part 2 Dialectics of division: Pandora's box - topographies of curiosity; cosmetics and abjection - Cindy Sherman 1977-87; the hole and the zero - Godard's visions of femininity. Part 3 Dollar-book Freud: from Log Cabin to Xanadu - psychoanalysis and history in "Citizen Kane"; The carapace that failed - Osmane Sembene's Xala; Netherworlds and the unconscious - Oedipus and Blue Velvet; changing objects, preserving time.
