The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy Wendy McDougald

The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy Wendy McDougaldOffers a new interpretation of "sympathy" as an instrument for investigating contemporary culture, gender, and visual technique. Suggesting that sentimental novels, films, and TV melodramas are guided by an ambivalent and sadoerotic sympathy, this book shows sympathetic sentiments to be cultural formulations of male desire, and sympathy itself to be the embodiment of a controlling gaze. In a playful but historically persuasive linkage of diverse

with role seen as a set of negotiated relations

he has lost everything: his family

A deeply personal yet universal work

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he argues that this ethic never tells us how to live our lives

gut barrier integrity

Designed for interdisciplinary use

Instead of offering partial explanations based on conventional approaches

sensationalism and the Gothic

Sarah Jurkiewicz

A PDF version of the introduction of this book is available for free in Open Access: Performance Generating Systems in Dance

where he is able to socially integrate despite his humble upbringings