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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811737203321

Autore

Murray Timothy

Titolo

Like a film : ideological fantasy on screen, camera, and canvas / / Timothy Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993

ISBN

1-134-90051-1

9786613917447

1-134-90052-X

1-283-60499-X

1-280-14486-6

0-203-97681-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

791.43

791.4375

Soggetti

Homosexuality in motion pictures

Motion pictures and the arts

Motion pictures - Political aspects

Motion pictures - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION Ideological fantasy in reverse projection; LIKE A FILM Reopening the case of the missing penis with Rainer, Silverman and Torok; PHOTO-MEDUSA Roland Barthes Incorporated; DIRTY STILLS Arcadian retrospection, cinematic hieroglyphs, and blackness run riot in Olivier's Othello; DIRTIER STILL? Wistful gazing and homographic hieroglyphs in Jarman's Caravaggio; WHAT'S HAPPENING? Lyotard writes art; ALLEGORIZING 'CONTENT' Metaphysical contradictions in the Harrisons' Lagoon Cycle; ON THE LINE; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Timothy Murray discusses relations between artistic practice, sexual and racial politics, theory and cultural studies through an examination of film, photography and art.