Lisa Cartwright is Professor of Communication and Science Studies and a faculty member in Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture, a coauthor of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, and a coeditor of The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science.

“Moral Spectatorship is an important and brave book that dares to consider the formation of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in cinema (and life) through concepts such as feeling, affect, dependency, and care. Drawing upon psychoanalytic theory (not Lacan’s), Lisa Cartwright writes with both passion and skepticism about-and around-a selection of films that foreground the radically ethical nature of human communication, reminding us that film studies can change not only the way we see films but also the way we view our lives.”-Vivian Sobchack, author of Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture “Uncovering alternative traditions in the psychoanalytic study of affect and object relations, while pairing them with deep explorations of American and continental moral philosophy, Lisa Cartwright proposes a series of arguments that will radically remap our understanding of spectatorship and identification. Moral Spectatorship is a path-breaking book and perhaps the first entirely new approach to subject, empathy, and affect in visual cultural studies to have appeared in the new millennium.”-D. N. Rodowick, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Spectatorship, Affect, and Representation 11. Moral Spectatorship: Rethinking Identification in Film Theory 112. The (Deaf) Woman's Film and the Quiet Revolution in Film Sound: On Projection, Incorporation, and Voice 513. "A Child Is Being Beaten": Disorders of Authorship, Agency, and Affect in Facilitated Communication 157Conclusion: On Empathy and Moral Spectatorship 229Notes 241References 255Index 281

Lisa Cartwright is Professor of Communication and Science Studies and a faculty member in Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture, a coauthor of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, and a coeditor of The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science.

“Moral Spectatorship is an important and brave book that dares to consider the formation of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in cinema (and life) through concepts such as feeling, affect, dependency, and care. Drawing upon psychoanalytic theory (not Lacan’s), Lisa Cartwright writes with both passion and skepticism about-and around-a selection of films that foreground the radically ethical nature of human communication, reminding us that film studies can change not only the way we see films but also the way we view our lives.”-Vivian Sobchack, author of Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture “Uncovering alternative traditions in the psychoanalytic study of affect and object relations, while pairing them with deep explorations of American and continental moral philosophy, Lisa Cartwright proposes a series of arguments that will radically remap our understanding of spectatorship and identification. Moral Spectatorship is a path-breaking book and perhaps the first entirely new approach to subject, empathy, and affect in visual cultural studies to have appeared in the new millennium.”-D. N. Rodowick, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Spectatorship, Affect, and Representation 11. Moral Spectatorship: Rethinking Identification in Film Theory 112. The (Deaf) Woman's Film and the Quiet Revolution in Film Sound: On Projection, Incorporation, and Voice 513. "A Child Is Being Beaten": Disorders of Authorship, Agency, and Affect in Facilitated Communication 157Conclusion: On Empathy and Moral Spectatorship 229Notes 241References 255Index 281

Lisa Cartwright is Professor of Communication and Science Studies and a faculty member in Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture, a coauthor of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, and a coeditor of The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science.

“Moral Spectatorship is an important and brave book that dares to consider the formation of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in cinema (and life) through concepts such as feeling, affect, dependency, and care. Drawing upon psychoanalytic theory (not Lacan’s), Lisa Cartwright writes with both passion and skepticism about-and around-a selection of films that foreground the radically ethical nature of human communication, reminding us that film studies can change not only the way we see films but also the way we view our lives.”-Vivian Sobchack, author of Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture “Uncovering alternative traditions in the psychoanalytic study of affect and object relations, while pairing them with deep explorations of American and continental moral philosophy, Lisa Cartwright proposes a series of arguments that will radically remap our understanding of spectatorship and identification. Moral Spectatorship is a path-breaking book and perhaps the first entirely new approach to subject, empathy, and affect in visual cultural studies to have appeared in the new millennium.”-D. N. Rodowick, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Spectatorship, Affect, and Representation 11. Moral Spectatorship: Rethinking Identification in Film Theory 112. The (Deaf) Woman's Film and the Quiet Revolution in Film Sound: On Projection, Incorporation, and Voice 513. "A Child Is Being Beaten": Disorders of Authorship, Agency, and Affect in Facilitated Communication 157Conclusion: On Empathy and Moral Spectatorship 229Notes 241References 255Index 281