Staring: How We Look

by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195326806
• ISBN13: 9780195326802
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.1"