Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-135) and index.
Contents
Overlooking the real in Camera lucida -- The accident that will have happened: Barthes, Kertész, and the punctum -- Film theory, sexual in-difference, and Lacan's tale of two toilets -- How should a woman look? scopic strategies for sexuated subjects -- Opening up to the punctum in Jamie Wagg's History painting: shopping mall -- Myra, Myra on the wall, who's the scariest of them all? Sensation and the studium -- Framing the child in Sally Mann's photographs -- Conclusion: Film theory for post-theory.