Captive bodies

postcolonial subjectivity in cinema

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Author

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Publication

1999 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

62,250 words, Guess

Page Count

249 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL375381M
ISBN-100791441555
OCLC Control Number42856158
OCLC Control Number40125913
OCLC Control Numbercaptivebodiespos0000fost

and 3 more

Library of Congress Control Number98037251
Goodreads2320359
LibraryThing1315217

Classifications

DDC791.43/658
LCCPN1995.9.C333 F67 1999

Description

Captive Bodies examines the film industry's fascination with bondage and captivity, seeking to revisualize American cinema through the lens of critical discourse on captivity narratives, slave narratives, and postcolonial critiques of cinematic constructions of "whiteness," "blackness," gender, and sexuality. Captivity is also examined here in relation to both those in front and behind the camera. Are we "subject" to others? Are we "bound" and "captive" in images? Are we "captive" bodies and "captive" audiences, held hostage to the spectacles of voyeuristic pleasure? Are those behind the camera involved in a process not unlike that of the slave system, enslaving the body in the image? To answer these and other questions, Captive Bodies draws upon a wide range of critical methodologies, including postcolonial studies, feminist film criticism, anthropology, and phenomenology.