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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 ...
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.
[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]
A final theory relevant to this area is the moral panic. Elucidated largely by David Gauntlett, [24] this theory postulates that concerns about new media are historical and cyclical. In this view, a society forms a predetermined negative belief about a new medium—typically not used by the elder and more powerful members of the society.
The identity fusion construct builds upon earlier work by emphasizing aspects of the relationship of people to groups that were de-emphasized within the social identity perspective (i.e., social identity theory [12] and self-categorization theory [13]). Like social identity theory, identity fusion theory rests on the distinction between the ...
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]
Peter J. Burke is an American sociologist and social psychologist.He is an expert on identity theory and has developed a theory of identity control. [1] [2] [3] [4 ...
Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; [1] and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. [2]