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The fetish : literature, cinema, visual art
- Title
- The fetish : literature, cinema, visual art / Massimo Fusillo ; translated by Thomas Haskell Simpson.
- Author
- Fusillo, Massimo, 1959-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, [2017]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Simpson, Thomas (Thomas Haskell), 1953-
- Description
- xii, 183 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Object fetishism is becoming a more and more pervasive phenomenon. Focusing on literature and the visual arts, including cinema, this book suggests a parallelism between fetishism and artistic creativity, based on a poetics of detail, which has been brilliantly exemplified by Flaubert's style. After exploring canonical accounts of fetishism (Marx, Freud, Benjamin), by combining a historicist approach with theoretical speculation, Massimo Fusillo identifies a few interpretive patterns of object fetishism, such as seduction (from Apollonius of Rhodes to Max Ophuls), memory activation (from Goethe to Louise Bourgeois and Pamuk), and the topos of the animation of the inanimate. Whereas all these patterns are characterized by a projection of emotional values onto objects, modernism highlights a more latent component of object fetishism: the fascination with the alterity of matter, variously inflected by Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Barnes, and Mann. The last turning point in Fusillo's analysis is postmodernism and its obsession with mass media icons-from DeLillo's maximalist frescos and Zadie Smith's reflections on autographs to Palahniuk's porn objects; from pop art to commodity sculpture.
- Uniform Title
- Feticci. English
- Alternative Title
- Feticci.
- Subjects
- Note
- Translated from the Italian.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-9481
- ISBN
- 9781501312359
- 1501312359
- LCCN
- 2017007908
- OCLC
- 946903487
- Author
- Fusillo, Massimo, 1959- author.
- Title
- The fetish : literature, cinema, visual art / Massimo Fusillo ; translated by Thomas Haskell Simpson.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Simpson, Thomas (Thomas Haskell), 1953- translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-9481