Fetishism and CuriosityThis collection explores the concepts of fetishism as developed by Marx and Freud. With cinema as her main consideration, Mulvey investigates the Hollywood cinema produced by the studio system. Amongst other topics, she includes an analysis of the films Citizen Kane, Xala and Blue Velvet. |
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aesthetic American appearance audience beauty belief Blue Velvet Cahiers du Cinéma camera capitalism Carmen castration castration anxiety Cindy Sherman Citizen Kane commodity commodity fetishism concealed concept of fetishism create critical curiosity deciphering desire disavowal displacement Durham's economic enigma erotic eroticised European evoke fascination father female body femininity feminist feminist aesthetics fetishistic figure film theory film's Freud Freudian genre Godard Hadji Hearst Hollywood Hollywood cinema iconography images of women Indian intellectual Je vous salue Jimmie Durham Kane's labour power London Lora Marx masquerade material materialises meaning melodrama metaphor mise en scène mother myth narrative object Obsession Oedipus origin Pandora photographs polarisation political popular culture Prénom presence production psyche psychic relation representation represents Sarah Jane scene screen Sembene semiotic sexuality Sherman signifier Sirk social space spectacle spectator Sphinx star story structure surface symbolic symptoms tion topography transformed uncanny unconscious visual woman Xala