Fetishism and curiosity

Author: Laura Mulvey
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Publication Date: 2007-02-01
Features: This collection of essays includes Laura Mulvey's new research findings, covering a wide range of subjects from films such as Xala, Citizen Kane, and Blue Velvet, to the installation art of artist Jim Dine and the photographic works of feminist photographer Cindy Sherman. The collection focuses on the concepts of fetishism developed by Marx and Freud, as well as their connections to artistic texts. Here, Laura Mulvey revisits many complex issues intertwined in contemporary cultural theory, particularly the relationships between watching, fantasy, theorization, and historical transformation. What kind of discourse can reveal the characteristics of the "society of the spectacle"? How can "curiosity" be used to explain the politics of mass culture? These are the challenging questions that this collection attempts to address.