Steven Shaviro
Series: Theory Out of Bounds
Volume: 2
Copyright Date: 1993
Edition: NED - New edition
Published
by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 292
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttt8tc
Book Description:
Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder’s gay sex icons and George Romero’s flesh-eating zombies, 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 mastery, ideology, and the structure of the signifier. Shaviro also explores issues of popular culture, postmodernism, the politics of the body, the construction of masculinity and of homo/heterosexualities, the nature and uses of pornography, and the aesthetics of masochism. “Invokes and evokes the force and sensation of film from within a Deleuze-Guattarian perspective. . . . well-written, elegant, and eloquent.” --Dana Polan
eISBN: 978-0-8166-8527-1
Subjects: Film Studies