The Cinematic Body: Volume 2 (Theory Out Of Bounds)

Shaviro, Steven

ISBN 10: 0816622949 / ISBN 13: 9780816622948

Published by Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cinematic Body: Volume 2 (Theory Out Of Bounds)
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816622949
• ISBN 13: 9780816622948
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 530 grams

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Synopsis

In The Cinematic Body, Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder’s gay sex icons and George Romero’s flesh-eating zombies, The Cinematic Body cuts across disciplinary boundaries and seeks to engage new currents in critical thought.

Shaviro radically critiques the Lacanian model currently popular in film theory and film studies, arguing against that model’s obsessive emphasis on the phallus, castration anxiety, sadistic master, ideology, and the structure of the signifier. In this groundbreaking volume, Shaviro effectively communicates a sense of the inescapable ambivalence and intensities of contemporary culture, ultimately affirming a thoroughly postmodern sensibility.

About the Author

Steven Shaviro is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Washington. He is author of Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille, and Literary Theory and of several articles on the politics of difference, libidinal economy, and theories of sexuality.