The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory) - Softcover

Hinton, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 079144340X ISBN 13: 9780791443408

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Offers a new interpretation of "sympathy" as an instrument for investigating contemporary culture, gender, and visual technique.

Suggesting that sentimental novels, films, and TV melodramas are guided by an ambivalent and sadoerotic sympathy, this book shows sympathetic sentiments to be cultural formulations of male desire, and sympathy itself to be the embodiment of a controlling gaze. In a playful but historically persuasive linkage of diverse texts, Laura Hinton shows how sympathetic spectators love their victims and, in the process, maintain authoritarian codes of sexual and racial difference.

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Laura Hinton is Assistant Professor of English at The City College of New York.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 079144340X
• ISBN 13: 9780791443408
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 279
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