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Cinema, theory, and political responsibility in contemporary culture /

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0521589088 (paperback)

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Cinema, theory, and political responsibility in contemporary culture /

[Book]

Patrick McGee.

New York, NY, USA :

Cambridge University Press,

c1997.

xv, 235 p. ;

23 cm.

Literature, culture, theory ;

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-231) and index.

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.

Motion pictures-- Aesthetics.

Motion pictures-- Philosophy.

Sex role in motion pictures.

McGee, Patrick,1949-

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