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ISBN
9780367193065
Publisert
2020-01-03
Utgiver
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Routledge
Vekt
240 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
140
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Biographical note
Janice Baker is a lecturer in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.<p><em>Sentient Relics</em> is an astonishing book: a veritable crystalline artifact endlessly refracting countless impressions. Not only does every phenomenon she considers, whether cinematic or museological, foreground the theatricalities of affect, but Baker makes extraordinarily clear exactly why Plato was right about why mimetic artistry of any kind is deeply dangerous to the souls of citizens: precisely because it calls attention to the artifice, fabricatedness, and contingency of what any hegemonic power projects, promotes, and enforces as social, cultural or theological truth.</p><p>- Donald Preziosi, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, USA</p>
Sentient Relics explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusion–exclusion debate. The author responds to the Enlightenment, ‘rational’ museum of reason contrasting this with the museum of affect and reveals these ‘two museums’ operating alongside one another in a productive paradox. In structuralist-orientated museum theory the affective realm is often subsumed within the imperatives of Marxist theory and practice, identity politics, semiology and psychoanalysis. Sentient Relics, while valuing the insights of ideologically focused meaning-making, turns to the capacity of the affective realm of experience to transform the passive subject and object relation. The author uses museum encounters and cinematic affect to engage with problems of difference, temporality, emotion and the sublime. In so doing the book advances research in museum studies by demonstrating what is at stake in pragmatically working toward a deeper understanding of the museum socially, culturally and philosophically.
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AcknowledgementsIllustrationsIntroduction1 Museum Trouble: Complicating the ‘new’ inclusionReading the gallery in silent film The inclusion dilemmaA difficult heritageThe ‘new’ museologyDemanding objectsMuseum ‘blockbusters’2 Fissures and Cracks: Unfettering identity from the ‘new’ inclusionObject autopoeisis‘The crack’Institutional autotelicity and rhizomatic objectsRe-invigorating the fetishActually, virtually becoming-animalCuriously resistant3 Outcasting Oedipus: The autonomy of affecting experienceThe sublime as a discourse of lossEkstasis: From Longinus to LyotardWhat about the body!Affectus: One unfolding substanceCultural objects and the transmission of affectThe duality of affect4 Show Time! Psychoanalysing the museum to deathGhostbusters: Green slime and a dangerous portraitViewing pleasures: Phantasy or lines of flightThe Topkapi imaginary: The museum as phallic (m)otherNight at the Museum: The museum as object aHorror museums: Beyond abjectionPost Lacan: Restoring affect to cinema5 Dangerous Identity: Museums in Vertigo and the ‘truth’ of false objectsThe mental-image: Inside the deceived selfThe abyss or the power of eternal return Signs of time: Escaping dusty semiologyThe fatal spiral: Identity and obsession6 Museums and cinematic timeMischievous dream worlds: musicals in the galleryMoving stillness: A thinking cinemaMarking time in La JetéeNight and Fog: Difficult heritage and the time-imageRussian Ark: In any momentThe storm we call progressFilmographyBibliographyIndex
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780367193065
Publisert
2020-01-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
240 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
140
Forfatter