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OverviewIn Sex in the Head, Linda Ruth Williams uses psychoanalysis and recent feminist film theory to analyze a network of ideas which link looking with sexuality and difference, in the work of a writer who disavowed, yet covertly enjoyed, the pleasures and power of vision. The book is a departure from the long history of feminist readings of Lawrence, in that it discusses his engagement with theories of the gaze and its cultural forms - cinema, photography, painting and the visual dynamics and metaphors of literary texts - as a way of thinking through gender. It shows him arguing, on the one hand, against the evils of cinema and visual sex, while relishing, through the eyes of women, the moving spectacle of those male bodies which populate the pages of his books. It also questions what it is about the work of such an adamant cinephobe which has made it so thoroughly adaptable for film and television. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Linda R. WilliamsPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Prentice-Hall Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780745013312ISBN 10: 0745013317 Pages: 190 Publication Date: 01 July 1993 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The blindness of the seeing eye; Chapter 2 ‘… my eyes are like hooks …’; Chapter 3 Putting on his glory; Chapter 4 The pornographic gaze; Chapter 5 On being a girl;ReviewsAuthor InformationLinda Ruth Williams is Professor in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |