LEADER 04237nam 2200853 a 450 001 9910780972703321 005 20230120050800.0 010 $a0-8232-4102-5 010 $a0-8232-4738-4 010 $a1-282-69874-5 010 $a9786612698743 010 $a0-8232-3764-8 010 $a0-8232-2735-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237647 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008059 035 $a(EBL)3239456 035 $a(OCoLC)730040891 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000436687 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11307739 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000436687 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10428530 035 $a(PQKB)10252768 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035334 035 $a(OCoLC)647876422 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14959 035 $a(DE-B1597)555218 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237647 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239456 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365074 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269874 035 $a(OCoLC)1099113913 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476659 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239456 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476659 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008059 100 $a20070403d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aForgetting Lot's wife$b[electronic resource] $eon destructive spectatorship /$fMartin Harries 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-2734-0 311 $a0-8232-2733-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 139-150) and index. 327 $aArtaud, spectatorship, and catastrophe -- Hollywood Sodom -- Anselm Kiefer's Lot's wife : perspective and the place of the spectator -- Coda: Lot's wife on September 11, 2001; or, Against figuration. 330 $aCan looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot?s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lot?s wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at disaster might petrify the spectator. Although rarely articulated directly,this idea remains powerful in our culture. This book traces some of its aesthetic, theoretical, and ethical consequences. Harries traces the figure of Lot?s wife across media. In extended engagements with examples from twentieth-century theater, film, and painting, he focuses on the theatrical theory of Antonin Artaud, a series of American films, and paintings by Anselm Kiefer. These examples all return to the story of Lot?s wife as a way to think about modern predicaments of the spectator. On the one hand, the sometimes veiled figure of Lot?s wife allows these artists to picture the desire to destroy the spectator; on the other, she stands as a sign of the potential danger to the spectator. These works, that is, enact critiques of the very desire that inspires them.The book closes with an extended meditation on September 11, criticizing the notion that we should have been destroyed by witnessing the events of that day. 606 $aInfluence (Psychology) 606 $aViolence 606 $aSuffering 606 $aAudiences$xPsychology 606 $aSpectators$xPsychology 606 $aMemory 606 $aRecollection (Psychology) 615 0$aInfluence (Psychology) 615 0$aViolence. 615 0$aSuffering. 615 0$aAudiences$xPsychology. 615 0$aSpectators$xPsychology. 615 0$aMemory. 615 0$aRecollection (Psychology) 676 $a155.9/35 700 $aHarries$b Martin$01562893 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780972703321 996 $aForgetting Lot's wife$93830900 997 $aUNINA