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Feminist and psychoanalytic analysis of spectatorship.
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feminine look sexuation spectatorship subversion jennifer friedlander Feminine Look SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture Henry Sussman, editor SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature Charles Shepherdson, editor F E M I N I N E L O O K Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion Jennifer Friedlander STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS Cover image: André Kertész, “Elizabeth and I,” Paris, 1931 © 2007 Estate of André Kertész Higher Pictures. An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared in Journal for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (Spring 2003, vol. 8.1), and preliminary research on the images addressed in chapters 6 and 7 appeared in Moving Pictures: Where the Police, the Press, and the Art Image Meet (Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998). Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2008 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Production by Judith Block and Eileen Meehan Marketing by Anne M. Valentine Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Friedlander, Jennifer Feminine Look : sexuation, spectatorship, subversion / Jennifer Friedlander. p. cm. — (SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture) (SUNY series, insinuations: philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978–0–7914–7295–8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Photography—Philosophy. I. Title. TR183.F755 2008 770.1—dc22 2007007702 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents LIST O F ILLUSTRATIONS vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1. Overlooking the Real in Camera Lucida 11 CHAPTER 2. The Accident That Will Have Happened Barthes, Kertész, and the Punctum 17 Film Theory, Sexual In-Difference, and Lacan’s Tale of Two Toilets 31 How Should a Woman Look? Scopic Strategies for Sexuated Subjects 49 Opening Up to the Punctum in Jamie Wagg’s History Painting: Shopping Mall 69 Myra, Myra On the Wall, Who’s the Scariest of Them All? Sensation and the Studium 77 CHAPTER 7. Framing the Child in Sally Mann’s Photographs 93 CONCLUSION Film Theory for Post-theory CHAPTER 3. CHAPTER 4. CHAPTER 5. CHAPTER 6. 111 NOTES 117 BIBLIOGRAPHY 127 INDEX 137 v This page intentionally left blank. Illustrations 1. André Kertész, “Landing Pigeon” 1960 20 2. André Kertész, “Broken Plate” 1929 22 3. André Kertész, “New York City” 1979 24 4. Robert Mapplethorpe, “Man in Polyester Suit” 1979 27 5. Saussure’s diagram (tree) 40 6. Lacan’s diagram (doors) 40 7. Adaptation of Lacan’s object diagram 54 8. Surveillance footage of James Bulger’s abduction 70 9. Press image of James Bulger’s abduction 70 10. Jamie Wagg, History Painting: Shopping Mall 1994