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Sentient Relics: Museums and Cinematic Affect - Hardcover

Baker, Janice

 
9781472438980: Sentient Relics: Museums and Cinematic Affect
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1472438981 ISBN 13: 9781472438980
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Sentient Relics explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusion–exclusion debate. The author responds to the Enlightenment, ‘rational’ museum of reason contrasting this with the museum of affect and reveals these ‘two museums’ operating alongside one another in a productive paradox. In structuralist-orientated museum theory the affective realm is often subsumed within the imperatives of Marxist theory and practice, identity politics, semiology and psychoanalysis. Sentient Relics, while valuing the insights of ideologically focused meaning-making, turns to the capacity of the affective realm of experience to transform the passive subject and object relation. The author uses museum encounters and cinematic affect to engage with problems of difference, temporality, emotion and the sublime. In so doing the book advances research in museum studies by demonstrating what is at stake in pragmatically working toward a deeper understanding of the museum socially, culturally and philosophically.

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About the Author

Janice Baker is a lecturer in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1472438981
ISBN 13 
9781472438980
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
152