Featuring thirteen new essays, including essays by Homi Bhabha, Simone de Beauvoir, Franz Fanon and Judi
Table of Contents
Section 1: SemiologyIntroduction
1.1 Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics
1.2 Roland Barthes, from Mythologies
1.3 Pierre Macherey, from A Theory of Literary Production
1.4 Umberto Eco, from The Narrative Structure in Fleming
1.5 Colin MacCabe, from Realism and the Cinema
Section 2: Ideology
Introduction
2.1 Karl Marx, from Preface to the Cinema
2.2 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from The German Ideology
2.3 Louis Althusser, from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus
2.4 Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex
2.5 Edward Said, from Orientalism
2.6 Homi K. Bhabha, from The Other Question
2.7 Slavoj Zizek, from The Sublime Object of Ideology
Section 3: Subjectivity
Introduction
3.1 Sigmund Freud, from Beyond the Pleasure Principle
3.2 Jacques Lacan, the Mirror Stage from Ecrits
3.3 Franz Fanon, from Black Skins, White Masks
3.4 Julia Kristevea, from The System and the Speaking Subject
3.5 Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish
3.6 Michel Foucault, from The History of Sexuality
3.7 Roland Barthes, from The Pleasure of the Text
Section 4: Difference
Introduction
4.1 Jacques Derrida Differance
Section 5: Gender
Introduction
5.1 Sigmund Freud, On the Universal Tendency...
5.2 Helene Cixous, from Sorties
5.3 Laura Mulvey, from Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
5.4 Manthia Diawara, from Black Spectatorship
5.5 Kobena Mercer, from Reading Racial Fetishism
5.6 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, from Real and Imagined Women
5.7 Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble
5.8 Homi K. Bhabha, from "Race", Time and the Revision of Modernity
Section 6: Postmodernism
Introduction
6.1 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition
6.2 Jean Baudrillard, from Simulations
6.3 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Inhuman
6.4 Jacques Derrida, from The Gift of Death
6.5 Jean Baudrillard, from The Spirit of Terrorism
6.6 Slavoj Zizek, from Welcome to the Desert of the Real
Summaries
Biographies
References and Index
