Visual Perversions: Race, Sex, and Cinematic Pleasure.

The article discusses the visual perversions with reference to James Baldwin's book "The Devil Finds Work." Within film theory in the mid-1970s, the idea of the cinematic spectator became a central concern. The incorporation of psychoanalysis within cinema studies made room for a feminist analysis o...

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Publicado en:Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 641 - 675
Autor principal: Oishi, Eve
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Chicago Press Spring2006
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