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Looking for the Gaze: Lacanian Film Theory and Its Vicissitudes
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 42, Number 3, Spring 2003
- pp. 27-47
- 10.1353/cj.2003.0009
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Film theory's encounter with Jacques Lacan has focused on the identification of the spectator with a gaze of mastery. This article argues that this involves a misreading of Lacan's concept of the gaze, and it focuses on the gaze as an instance of the object petit a.
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