The Resource The reader as peeping Tom : nonreciprocal gazing in narrative fiction and film, Jeremy Hawthorn
The reader as peeping Tom : nonreciprocal gazing in narrative fiction and film, Jeremy Hawthorn
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- Summary
- When we read a novel or watch a film, we become Peeping Toms. Spying on fictional characters, we can enjoy observing their private lives and most intimate secrets while safe in the knowledge that they are totally unaware of us. The Reader as Peeping Tom: Nonreciprocal Gazing in Narrative Fiction and Film, by Jeremy Hawthorn, examines the implications of this nonreciprocal relationship by focusing on works in which the relationships between characters are also nonreciprocal. Hawthorn focuses on four novelists and three filmmakers whose works are concerned with surveillance, spying, and voyeurism: Hawthorne, Dickens, Melville, Henry James, Hitchcock, Michael Powell, and Francis Ford Coppola. Hawthorn suggests that while some literary and film narratives use the reader{u2019}s or viewer{u2019}s sense of all-seeing invulnerability to underwrite the various systems of control and surveillance that are depicted in the work, others associate such forms of nonreciprocal observation with impotence and impoverishment and thus critique political systems that legitimize surveillance. Hawthorn concludes that critics have underestimated the extent to which reader{u2019}s or viewer{u2019}s sense of disempowerment adds meaning to the experience of fiction and film and may encourage acceptance or criticism of spying and surveillance in the real world. The book questions benign views of the reader{u2019}s or spectator{u2019}s role as passive observer, and offers original and exciting readings of some key narrative texts. --Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 246 pages
- Contents
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and the paradoxes of privacy
- Seeing is believing: power and the gaze in Charles Dickens's The adventures of Oliver Twist
- The voyeur and the imperial gaze: Herman Melville's Typee
- Turning people into characters: Henry James's "In the cage"
- The politics of looking in/at Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window
- Can you guess how you'd look? Michael Powell's Peeping Tom
- What's bugging Harry? Francis Ford Coppola's The conversation
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780814293607
- Label
- The reader as peeping Tom : nonreciprocal gazing in narrative fiction and film
- Title
- The reader as peeping Tom
- Title remainder
- nonreciprocal gazing in narrative fiction and film
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeremy Hawthorn
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When we read a novel or watch a film, we become Peeping Toms. Spying on fictional characters, we can enjoy observing their private lives and most intimate secrets while safe in the knowledge that they are totally unaware of us. The Reader as Peeping Tom: Nonreciprocal Gazing in Narrative Fiction and Film, by Jeremy Hawthorn, examines the implications of this nonreciprocal relationship by focusing on works in which the relationships between characters are also nonreciprocal. Hawthorn focuses on four novelists and three filmmakers whose works are concerned with surveillance, spying, and voyeurism: Hawthorne, Dickens, Melville, Henry James, Hitchcock, Michael Powell, and Francis Ford Coppola. Hawthorn suggests that while some literary and film narratives use the reader{u2019}s or viewer{u2019}s sense of all-seeing invulnerability to underwrite the various systems of control and surveillance that are depicted in the work, others associate such forms of nonreciprocal observation with impotence and impoverishment and thus critique political systems that legitimize surveillance. Hawthorn concludes that critics have underestimated the extent to which reader{u2019}s or viewer{u2019}s sense of disempowerment adds meaning to the experience of fiction and film and may encourage acceptance or criticism of spying and surveillance in the real world. The book questions benign views of the reader{u2019}s or spectator{u2019}s role as passive observer, and offers original and exciting readings of some key narrative texts. --Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- OU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hawthorn, Jeremy
- Dewey number
- 823.009
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN56.V65
- LC item number
- H39 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- Theory and interpretation of narrative
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Voyeurism in literature
- Voyeurism in motion pictures
- Fiction
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Label
- The reader as peeping Tom : nonreciprocal gazing in narrative fiction and film, Jeremy Hawthorn
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and the paradoxes of privacy -- Seeing is believing: power and the gaze in Charles Dickens's The adventures of Oliver Twist -- The voyeur and the imperial gaze: Herman Melville's Typee -- Turning people into characters: Henry James's "In the cage" -- The politics of looking in/at Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window -- Can you guess how you'd look? Michael Powell's Peeping Tom -- What's bugging Harry? Francis Ford Coppola's The conversation -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 861955964
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- viii, 246 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814293607
- Isbn Type
- (cd-rom)
- Lccn
- 2013042396
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861955964
- Label
- The reader as peeping Tom : nonreciprocal gazing in narrative fiction and film, Jeremy Hawthorn
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and the paradoxes of privacy -- Seeing is believing: power and the gaze in Charles Dickens's The adventures of Oliver Twist -- The voyeur and the imperial gaze: Herman Melville's Typee -- Turning people into characters: Henry James's "In the cage" -- The politics of looking in/at Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window -- Can you guess how you'd look? Michael Powell's Peeping Tom -- What's bugging Harry? Francis Ford Coppola's The conversation -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 861955964
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- viii, 246 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814293607
- Isbn Type
- (cd-rom)
- Lccn
- 2013042396
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861955964
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