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David Gauntlett (born 15 March 1971) is a British sociologist and media theorist, and the author of several books including Making is Connecting.. His earlier work concerned contemporary media audiences, and has moved towards a focus on the everyday making and sharing of digital media and social media and the role of these activities in self-identity and building creative cultures.
Todd McGowan (born 1967) is an American film scholar, philosopher, and professor of English at the University of Vermont where he teaches film and cultural theory. He works on Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersection of these lines of thought with the cinema. [1]
Identity is a 2003 American mystery psychological thriller film directed by James Mangold, written by Michael Cooney, and starring John Cusack, Ray Liotta, and Amanda Peet with Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall, and Rebecca De Mornay.
Interpellation is a concept introduced to Marxist theory by Louis Althusser as the mechanism through which pre-existing social structures "constitute" (or construct) individual human organisms as subjects (with consciousness and agency). Althusser asked how people come voluntarily to live within class, gender, racial or other identities, and ...
[36] Finally, Butler aims to break the supposed links between sex and gender so that gender and desire can be "flexible, free floating and not caused by other stable factors" (David Gauntlett). [37] The idea of identity as free and flexible and gender as performative, not an essence, has become one of the foundations of queer theory. [38] [39]
Since 2004, David Gauntlett published a number of books on combination of Lego Serious Play in media studies. [17] This approach makes use of metaphor and invites participants to build metaphorical models of their identities.
Lacanian theory claims that this identification with the camera provides the spectator with a sense of imaginary mastery and is the source of the pleasure in watching film. [15] The mirror phase is one of Lacan’s most influential concepts, and is considered to be the first occurrence of identification in a person's life. [16]
Linguistic film theory was proposed by Stanley Cavell [1] and it is based on the philosophical tradition begun by late Ludwig Wittgenstein.The theory itself is said to mirror aspects of the activity of Wittgenstein's own philosophising (e.g. Wittgenstein's thought experiments) as films are viewed capable of engaging the audience in a therapeutic process of 'dialogue' and even investigate the ...