Vision Machines Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993

Name: Vision Machines Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993
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ISBN: 9781859840795

ISBN-10: 1859840795

ISBN-13: 9781859840795

Edition: 1996

Authors: Paul Julian Smith

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Over the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. Vision Machines explores this development in the light of contemporary history and recent theoretical accounts of sight by writers including Paul Virilio, Gianni Vattimo and Teresa de Lauretis.The very visible women of Almodóvar’s cinema are Paul Julian Smith’s first subject. He shows how, in his early Dark Habits, lesbianizes the look, putting women’s pleasure at the centre of the frame, and then examines Almodóvar’s recent film, Kika, where the conflict between cinema and video is played out in the bodies of women: good, bad and ugly. Moving the focus to Cuba, Smith…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 4/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792