| The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments Form Clarissas to Rescue 911 Contributor(s): Hinton, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 079144340X ISBN-13: 9780791443408 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: Suggesting that sentimental novels, films, and TV melodramas are guided by an ambivalent and sadoerotic sympathy, this book shows sympathetic sentiments to be cultural formulations of male desire, and sympathy itself to be the embodiment of a controlling gaze. In a playful but historically persuasive linkage of diverse texts, Laura Hinton shows how sympathetic spectators love their victims and, in the process, maintain authoritarian codes of sexual and racial difference. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.009 |
| LCCN: 99028288 |
| Series: Suny Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.93" W x 8.98" (0.87 lbs) 279 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |