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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
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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
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Contents
LIST
O F ILLUSTRATIONS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 1.
Overlooking the Real in Camera Lucida
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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
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CONCLUSION
Film Theory for Post-theory
CHAPTER 3. CHAPTER 4. CHAPTER 5. CHAPTER 6.
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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Illustrations
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André Kertész, “Landing Pigeon” 1960
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André Kertész, “Broken Plate” 1929
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André Kertész, “New York City” 1979
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4.
Robert Mapplethorpe, “Man in Polyester Suit” 1979
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5.
Saussure’s diagram (tree)
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Lacan’s diagram (doors)
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Adaptation of Lacan’s object diagram
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Surveillance footage of James Bulger’s abduction
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Press image of James Bulger’s abduction
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Jamie Wagg, History Painting: Shopping Mall 1994