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Article: Fetishism and Curiosity.
(book reviews)
- Article from:
- Journal of Popular Film & Television
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
- Author:
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Laura Mulvey's poststructuralist feminism with its anti-essentialist assumptions first came to prominence in 1975 with her celebrated paper "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Her new book Fetishism and Curiosity is a collection that traces her "intellectual development with successive waves of British film theory." The basic thesis, as illustrated by this new collection of papers, is little changed: she believes that Freud's twin mechanisms of voyeurism and fetishism suggest that Hollywood narrative cinema is constructed from three basic "looks" that satisfy desire in the male unconscious. The three looks are the look of the camera, which she judges to be voyeuristic ...
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