"What influence does the cinema have on visual culture and social understanding? In what ways are we products of the cinematic gaze? This timely book, written by one of the leading commentators in the sociology of culture, highlights the extent to which the cinema has contributed to the rise of...

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1. Verfasser:	Denzin, Norman K. 1941-2023 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London [u.a.] Sage 1995
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:	Theory, culture & society
Schlagworte:	Beeldcommunicatie Cinéma - Aspect social Cinéma - Publics - Aspect psychologique Filmindustrie Filmkunst Film Gesellschaft Psychologie Motion pictures > Social aspects Motion picture audiences > Psychology Gaze > Psychological aspects Publikum Soziologie
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Zusammenfassung:	"What influence does the cinema have on visual culture and social understanding? In what ways are we products of the cinematic gaze? This timely book, written by one of the leading commentators in the sociology of culture, highlights the extent to which the cinema has contributed to the rise of voyeurism throughout society." "The cinema not only turns its audience into voyeurs, eagerly following the lives of its screen characters, but repeatedly casts its key players as onlookers, spying on other people's lives. The nature of the cinematic voyeur - the obsessive outsider, the ethnic or sexual Other - is examined in depth, as are its implications for contemporary society. Denzin analyses Hollywood's manipulations of gender, race and class, and, drawing on the work of Foucault, argues that the cinematic gaze must be understood as part of the machinery of surveillance and power which regulates social behaviour in the late twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	247 S.
ISBN:	0803986572 0803986580