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...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 641 - 675 |
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University of Chicago Press
Spring2006
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| Sumario: | 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 of gender in the visual encounter. Baldwin's memoir relates his most significant experiences at the motion pictures. Critics have acknowledged Baldwin's memoir as an important theoretical contribution to racialized notions of spectatorship and viewing relations. The perverse spectatorship relies heavily on the language and theories of psychoanalysis. The perverse spectator is defined by the two characteristics that perverse spectators don't do what is expected and they rehierarchize from expectations. New ways of theorizing the processes of cinematic spectatorship and identification is presented in Baldwin's narrative. Looking forward toward a finite fulfillment disidentification diverges from the process of perverse spectatorship. |
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