1st Edition
Like a Film Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas
By Timothy Murray
Copyright 1993
280 Pages
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Routledge
278 Pages
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Routledge
280 Pages
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Routledge
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In this stimulating collection of theoretical writings on film, photography, and art, Timothy Murray examines relations between artistic practice, sexual and racial politics, theory and cultural studies. Like a Film investigates how the cinematic apparatus has invaded the theory of culture, suggesting that the many destabilising traumas of our culture remain accessible to us because they are... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Pictures of the Living Dead; Chapter 2 Like a Film; Chapter 3 PHOTO-MEDUSA Roland Barthes Incorporated; Part 2 Dirty Stills; Chapter 4 Dirty Stills; Chapter 5 Dirtier Still?; Part 3 Lines of Demand; Chapter 6 What’s Happening?; Chapter 7 Allegorizing ‘Content’; Chapter 8 On the Line;
Biography
Timothy Murray is Professor of English at Cornell University. A former editor of Theatre Journal, he is the author of Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in Seventeenth-Century England and France.
