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Informationen zum Autor Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communications! College of Communications Scholar! and Research Professor of Communications! Sociology! and Humanities at the University of Illinois! Urbana-Champaign. Denzin is the author or editor of more than two dozen books! including Indians on Display; Custer on Canvas; The Qualitative Manifesto ; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire ; Searching for Yellowstone ; Reading Race ; Interpretive Ethnography ; The Cinematic Society ; The Voyeur's Gaze ; and The Alcoholic Self . He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly ! co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln) of four editions of the Handbook of Qualitative Research ! coeditor (with Michael D. Giardina) of eight plenary volumes from the annual Congress of Qualitative Inquiry! co-editor (with Lincoln) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry ! founding editor of Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research ! and editor of three book series. Klappentext Ranging over a rich variety of material from film and film literature! and encompassing a critical interrogation of traditional realist ethnographic and cinematic texts! this book highlights the extent to which the cinema has contributed to the rise of voyeurism throughout society. The cinema not only turns its audience into voyeurs! eagerly following the lives of its screen characters! but casts its key players as onlookers! spying on other's lives. The nature of the cinematic voyeur is examined in depth! as are its implications for contemporary society. Norman K Denzin analyzes Hollywood's manipulations of gender! race and class! and! drawing on the work of Foucault! argues that the cinematic gaze must be understood as part of the machinery of surveillance and power which regulates social behaviour in the late twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Ranging over a rich variety of material from film and film literature! and encompassing a critical interrogation of traditional realist ethnographic and cinematic texts! this book highlights the extent to which the cinema has contributed to the rise of voyeurism throughout society. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionThe Birth of the Cinematic SocietyThe Voyeur's DesireThe Comic Voyeur's GazeThe Asian Eye Charlie Chan and Mr Moto Go to the MoviesFlawed Visions The Obsessive Male GazeWomen at the Keyhole Fatal Female VisionsParanoia and the Erotics of PowerThe Voyeur's Future ...
