Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Janice Baker
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781472438980

ISBN 10:   1472438981
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   06 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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 Contents

Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction 1 Museum Trouble: Complicating the ‘new’ inclusion Reading the gallery in silent film The inclusion dilemma A difficult heritage The ‘new’ museology Demanding objects Museum ‘blockbusters’ 2 Fissures and Cracks: Unfettering identity from the ‘new’ inclusion Object autopoeisis ‘The crack’ Institutional autotelicity and rhizomatic objects Re-invigorating the fetish Actually, virtually becoming-animal Curiously resistant 3 Outcasting Oedipus: The autonomy of affecting experience The sublime as a discourse of loss Ekstasis: From Longinus to Lyotard What about the body! Affectus: One unfolding substance Cultural objects and the transmission of affect The duality of affect 4 Show Time! Psychoanalysing the museum to death Ghostbusters: Green slime and a dangerous portrait Viewing pleasures: Phantasy or lines of flight The Topkapi imaginary: The museum as phallic (m)other Night at the Museum: The museum as object a Horror museums: Beyond abjection Post Lacan: Restoring affect to cinema 5 Dangerous Identity: Museums in Vertigo and the ‘truth’ of false objects The mental-image: Inside the deceived self The abyss or the power of eternal return Signs of time: Escaping dusty semiology The fatal spiral: Identity and obsession 6 Museums and cinematic time Mischievous dream worlds: musicals in the gallery Moving stillness: A thinking cinema Marking time in La Jetée Night and Fog: Difficult heritage and the time-image Russian Ark: In any moment The storm we call progress Filmography Bibliography Index

Reviews

Sentient Relics 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. - Donald Preziosi, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, USA

Sentient Relics 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. - Donald Preziosi, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, USA

Author Information

Janice Baker is a lecturer in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions