Looking for the gaze: Lacanian film theory and its vicissitudes

Cinema Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 27-47

  McGowan, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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EID: 60950103511     PISSN: 00097101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cj.2003.0009     Document Type: Review

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