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This chapter transitions to the body of the spectator, not in terms of how he or she is affected by the films but in order to theorize a possible experience of them given the analyses in the previous chapters. The author works through various theories of pornography spectatorship and turns to the three films in Chap. 5 to enhance the contention, and prior demonstrations, that genre and genre spectatorship are more ambiguous and porous than we have perhaps been willing to grant. The chapter's means to accomplish this is the bridge built between the theories of psychoanalysis (Lacan, Žižek, Burgin) and phenomenology (Marks). With the preceding chapters' arguments in hand, an alternative method of building spectators into film theory and genre theory is proposed.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65894-0_7

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