A01=Victor Burgin
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Author_Victor Burgin
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cinema
consciousness
culture of images
department stores
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film
film and television
film studies
helmut newton
henri lefebvre
identity
imagery
images
imaginary relations
media
media studies
movie
movie studies
nation
national identity
ousmane sembene
parisian cityscapes
perception
photography
psychoanalysis
race
racial identity
representation
roland barthes
sexual identity
sexuality
spatial relations
spectacle
subjectivity
television
temporal relations
Product details
- ISBN 9780520202993
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions that produce them, such as cinema, photography, advertising, and television, and more as hybrid mental constructs composed of fragments derived from the heterogeneous sources that together constitute the 'media'. Through deft analyses of a photograph by Helmut Newton, Parisian cityscapes, the space of the department store, a film by Ousmane Sembene, and the writings of Henri Lefebvre, Andre Breton, and Roland Barthes, Burgin develops an incisive theory of our culture of images and spectacle. "In/Different Spaces" explores the construction of identities in the psychical space between perception and consciousness, drawing upon psychoanalytic theories to describe the constitution and maintenance of 'self' and 'us' - in imaginary spatial and temporal relations to 'other' and 'them' - through the all-important relay of images.
For Burgin, the image is never a transparent representation of the world but rather a principal player on the stage of history.
