LABYRINTH OF THEORY.(The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship)(Book review)

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Publication Date: 01-MAR-07

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THE BODY AND THE SCREEN: THEORIES OF INTERNET SPECTATORSHIP BY MICHELE WHITE

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: MIT PRESS, 2006

280 PP./$35.00 (HB)

For film theorists with a keen sense of cinema's transition into the digital age, a book that professes a feminist approach to understanding theories of Internet spectatorship is a worthy enterprise. Given the research that established theories of cinematic spectatorship, the primacy of the male gaze, strategies to theorize female cinematic pleasure, and various subsequent discussions on sexual difference pivotal to such psychoanalytic speculations and dogmatism, a new book that considers this particular legacy of film theory in the digital age would be an interesting contribution to the subject. However, Michelc White's The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship raises more issues about the psychoanalytic inflections of...

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