Fetishism and curiosity

Author: Laura Mulvey
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: This collection of essays includes Laura Mulvey's new research findings, with subjects ranging 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, covering a very broad scope. The collection focuses on the fetish concept developed by Marx and Freud and its relationship with artistic texts. Here, Laura Mulvey revisits many complex issues intertwined in contemporary cultural theory, particularly the connections between viewing, fantasy, theorization, and historical transformation. What mode of discourse can reveal the characteristics of the "spectacle society"? How can "curiosity" be used to explain the politics of mass culture? These are the challenging questions that this collection attempts to address.