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" Cinema, theory, and political responsibility in contemporary culture / "
Patrick McGee.
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BL
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705958
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b528147
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| Main Entry
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McGee, Patrick,1949-
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Cinema, theory, and political responsibility in contemporary culture /\ Patrick McGee.
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Cambridge, U.K. ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, c1997.
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Literature, culture, theory ;; 24
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xv, 235 p. ;; 23 cm.
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0521581303 (hardback)
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: 0521589088 (paperback)
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: 9780521581301 (hardback)
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: 9780521589086 (paperback)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-231) and index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. Redeeming contradictions : from critical theory to cultural studies : Adorno, culture, and film -- Analyzing It's a wonderful life -- Aesthetic theory and political responsibility -- The method of cultural studies -- Lacan, sublimation, and The age of innocence -- Derrida and the responsibility of interpretation -- pt. 2. Art as the absolute commodity : the intersubjectivity of mimesis in Adorno's Aesthetic theory : The aesthetic thing -- Instrumental and communicative reason -- Mimesis -- Dialectical reason -- Appearance, apparition, and history -- Art's negative truth -- pt. 3. Sexual nations : history and the division of hope in The crying game : The culture industry -- The symptom -- Cinematic sutures -- Context and contradiction -- Aesthetic politics -- Misogyny, racism, and the death drive -- Nature, nation, and mimetic identification -- Subjectivity and narrative displacement -- The gaze, the mirror, and the masquerade -- Deconstructing the sexual difference -- Sexual nations -- Desire and hope -- pt. 4. Deconstruction and responsibility : the question of freedom in the place of the undecidable : Derrida and his critics -- Deconstructive politics and the university.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures-- Aesthetics.
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Motion pictures-- Philosophy.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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PN1995.M378 1997
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