Like a Film

Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas

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by Timothy Murray

Type: Essays
Subject: Sociology
Keywords: cinema influence, psychology, sociology
Publishing date: 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English

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Paperback • 280 pages
6 x 9 ½ inches (15 x 24 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-415-07734-6
978-0-415-07734-7

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Book Presentation:
In this stimulating collection of theoretical writings on film, photography, and art, Timothy Murray examines relations between artistic practice, sexual and racial politics, theory and cultural studies.
Like a Film investigates how the cinematic apparatus has invaded the theory of culture, suggesting that the many destabilising traumas of our culture remain accessible to us because they are structured so much like film. The book analyses the impact of cinematic perceptions and productions on awide array of cultural practices: from the Renassance works of Shakespeare and Caravaggio to modern sexual and political fantasy; and the theoretical work of Lyotard, Torok, Barthes, Ropars-Wuilleumier, Zizek, Silverman and Laplanche.Like A Film responds to current multicultural debates over the value of theory and the aim of artistic practice.

About the Author:
Timothy Murray is Professor of English at Cornell University. A former editor of Theatre Journal, he is the author of Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in Seventeenth-Century England and France.

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