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    Sentient Relics: Museums and Cinematic Affect

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    Authors
    Baker, Janice
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Book
    
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    Baker, J. 2017. Sentient Relics: Museums and Cinematic Affect. New York: Routledge.
    ISBN
    1317057120
    School
    School of Design and Art
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52841
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Sentient Relics explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusion-exclusion debate. The author responds to the Enlightenment, 'rational' museum of reason contrasting this with the museum of affect and reveals these 'two museums' operating alongside one another in a productive paradox. In structuralist-orientated museum theory the affective realm is often subsumed within the imperatives of Marxist theory and practice, identity politics, feminism, semiology, and psychoanalysis. Sentient Relics, while valuing the insights of ideologically situated meaning-making, turns to the capacity of the affective realm of experience to transform the passive subject and object relation. The author uses museum encounters and cinematic affect to engage with problems of difference, temporality, emotion and the sublime. In so doing the book advances research in museum studies by demonstrating what is at stake in pragmatically working toward a deeper understanding of the museum socially, culturally and philosophically.

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