The visual is essentially pornographic; writes Fredric Jameson; "films ask us to stare at the world as though it were a naked body." In Signatures of the Visible; one of Americas most influential critics explores film and the culture surrounding it; interrogating the relationship between the imaginative screen world and the historical world onto which it is projected. By seeking the historical dimension of the visual; Jameson evaluates the power of the filmic form as a vehicle for the critique of culture and the diagnosis of social life. Jameson pursues this investigation through readings of politics; class; allegory; magic realism; and "the historical" in such films as Diva; The Shining; and Dog Day Afternoon. Throughout the book; he is concerned with the relationship between the achievements and limits of contemporary film theory itself; "a relationship;" he argues; "which allows one to take the temperature of history itself."
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