Forgetting Lot's Wife : : On Destructive Spectatorship / / Martin Harries.
Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot’s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all...
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Harries, Martin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Forgetting Lot's Wife : On Destructive Spectatorship / Martin Harries. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource (192 p.) : 22 Black & White and color illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One Artaud, Spectatorship, and Catastrophe -- Chapter Two Hollywood Sodom -- Chapter Three Anselm Kiefer’s Lot’s Wife: Perspective and the Place of the Spectator -- Coda Lot’s Wife on September 11, 2001; or, Against Figuration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot’s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lot’s wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at disaster might petrify the spectator. Although rarely articulated directly,this idea remains powerful in our culture. This book traces some of its aesthetic, theoretical, and ethical consequences. Harries traces the figure of Lot’s wife across media. In extended engagements with examples from twentieth-century theater, film, and painting, he focuses on the theatrical theory of Antonin Artaud, a series of American films, and paintings by Anselm Kiefer. These examples all return to the story of Lot’s wife as a way to think about modern predicaments of the spectator. On the one hand, the sometimes veiled figure of Lot’s wife allows these artists to picture the desire to destroy the spectator; on the other, she stands as a sign of the potential danger to the spectator. These works, that is, enact critiques of the very desire that inspires them.The book closes with an extended meditation on September 11, criticizing the notion that we should have been destroyed by witnessing the events of that day. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) Audiences Psychology. Influence (Psychology). Memory. Recollection (Psychology). Spectators Psychology. Suffering. Violence. Cinema & Media Studies. Literary Studies. Philosophy & Theory. PERFORMING ARTS / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110707298 print 9780823227334 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823237647?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823237647 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823237647/original |
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