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The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan Paperback - 2008

by Todd McGowan


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Winner of the 2008 Gradiva Award, Theoretical Category, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

The Real Gaze develops a new theory of the cinema by rethinking the concept of the gaze, which has long been central in film theory. Historically film scholars have located the gaze on the side of the spectator; however, Todd McGowan positions it within the filmic image, where it has the radical potential to disrupt the spectator's sense of identity and challenge the foundations of ideology. This book demonstrates several distinct cinematic forms that vary in terms of how the gaze functions within the films. Through a detailed investigation of directors such as Orson Welles, Claire Denis, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, Federico Fellini, Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Andrei Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, and David Lynch, McGowan explores the political, cultural, and existential ramifications of these differing roles of the gaze.

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  • Title The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan
  • Author Todd McGowan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 266
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date January 2008
  • ISBN 9780791470404 / 0791470407
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.96 x 0.65 in (22.86 x 15.14 x 1.65 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

About the author

Todd McGowan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the author of The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment and The Feminine "No!" Psychoanalysis and the New Canon, both also published by SUNY Press.
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