Feminist and psychoanalytic analysis of spectatorship.Feminine Look shows how the Lacanian concept of sexuation makes possible a new account of the relationship among feminism; psychoanalysis; and spectatorship. Whereas previous studies have tended to ask how spectatorship may be influenced by sexual difference; Jennifer Friedlander asks how particular spectatorial encounters may engender different ldquo;sexuatedrdquo; responses. In so doing; she traces a fresh path through Freudrsquo;s account of the relationship between visual perception and sexual difference and rereads Freudrsquo;s fable of castration anxiety; suggesting that sexual identity arises as a response to the symbolic orderrsquo;s indifference to the subjectrsquo;s need for a solid identity. She examines provocative and controversial artistic images by Jamie Wagg; Marcus Harvey; and Sally Mann to demonstrate how images not only create and embody social practices but also precipitate viewer anxieties and pleasures.ldquo;Feminine Look continuously retells and (re)explores several theories as Friedlander employs them to contrast the inscribed and approved methods of late twentieth-century scholarly work on sexuation and spectatorship; and as she explores her conceptualization and subversion of these theories she suggests a new politics of the image as well as a new theoretical approach. Her examples; spectacular images; smooth argument; and well-based theoretical background make her second book a novel contribution to film; visual; and cultural studies alike.rdquo; mdash; Hungarian Journal of English and American Studiesldquo;Blending very sophisticated psychoanalytic theory with some novel and yet important visual-media texts; Friedlander makes a strong contribution to the field of feminist visual-media theory and female spectatorship by returning to its origins in Lacanian studies. By reinvestigating the role Lacan played in those studiesmdash;vis-agrave;-vis Freud; Saussure; and Barthesmdash;she creates a playful new space for contemplating the gendered look. She also offers a theoretical account of how contemporary photography and other technological lsquo;gazersquo; media represent gendered images through unconscious and linguistic devices.rdquo; mdash; Laura Hinton; author of The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911Jennifer Friedlander is Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies and Assistant Professor of Art History at Pomona College.
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