Staring
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-532679-6 (ISBN)
Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, Garland-Thomson defines staring, explores the factors that motivate it, and considers the targets and the effects of the stare. A bodily inventory then enumerates how stares actually operate in daily life. A section on "Bodies" focuses on the question of size and scale as key indicators of normalcy, while certain body parts show themselves to be disproportionately arresting, as passages on "Faces" "Hands" and "Breasts" reveal. A concluding chapter on "Beholding" considers the frisson at play between starer and staree and offers an alternative way of understanding visual communication between people.
Featuring over forty illustrations, Staring captures the stimulating combination of symbolic, material and emotional factors that make staring so irresistible while endeavoring to shift the usual response to staring, shame, into an engaged self-consideration. Elegant and provocative, this book advances new ways of thinking about visuality and the body that will appeal to readers who are interested in the overlap between the humanities and human behaviors.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her fields of study are feminist theory, American literature, and disability studies. Her scholarly and professional activities are devoted to developing the field of disability studies in the humanities and in women's studies
PART 1. ABOUT STARING ; Chapter 1. Why Do We Stare? ; PART 2. WHAT IS STARING? ; Chapter 2: Staring: A Physical Response ; Chapter 3: Staring: A Cultural History ; Chapter 4: Staring: A Social Relationship ; Chapter 5: Staring: Knowledge Gathering ; PART 3. DON'T STARE ; Chapter 6: Staring: Getting into Trouble ; Chapter 7: Staring: Bad Manners ; Chapter 8: Staring: Rules and Rebellion ; PART 4. STARERS AND STAREES ; Chapter 9: Looking Away, Staring Back ; PART 5. SCENES OF STARING ; Chapter 10: Staring at Faces ; Chapter 11: Staring at Hands ; Chapter 12: Staring at Bodies ; Chapter 13: Staring at Breasts ; Chapter 14: Beholding
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.6.2009 |
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Zusatzinfo | 43 black and white half tone illustrations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 485 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-532679-2 / 0195326792 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-532679-6 / 9780195326796 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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