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Staring

Paperback • 2009 • English • 1. edition

Staring: How We Look

By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

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About the book

Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, cultural critic Rosemarie Garland-Thomson tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored, the human stare. In the first book of its kind, Garland-Thomson defines staring, explores the factors that motivate it, and considers the targets and the effects of the stare. While borrowing from psychology and biology to help explain why the impulse to stare is so powerful, she also enlarges and complicates these ...Show more

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ISBN

9780195326802

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Staring

Format

Paperback

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