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The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference

The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference

Chanter, Tina

Paperback

Film StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0253219183
ISBN13: 9780253219183
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Jan 11 2008
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.22
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.23 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

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

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