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First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Kaja Silverman is Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent books are Speaking About Godard (with Harun Farocki) and The Threshold of the Visible World.

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The Acoustic Mirror combines an extended reflection on sound and voice in cinema with a critical examination of the possibilities and impossibilities of current theoretical approaches as they listen, or not, to questions of sexual difference.

Kaja Silverman is Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author, most recently, of Flesh of My Flesh (SUP, 2009).

Kaja Silverman is Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author, most recently, of Flesh of My Flesh (SUP, 2009).

In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies.

Kaja Silverman is Class of l940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of James Coleman (2002), World Spectators (Stanford, 2000), Speaking About Godard (1998), The Threshold of the Visual World (1996), Male Subjectivity at the Margins (1992), The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (1988), and The Subject of Semiotics (1983).

Probably the prominent living filmmaker, and one of the foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has received astonishingly little critical attention in the United States. This title conveys the sense that we are at the movies with Silverman and Farocki, and that we, as both student and participant, are the ultimate beneficiaries.

Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic "The Best Years of Our Lives" to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a bold new look at masculinities which deviate from the social norm.

What is a woman? What is a man? How do they - and how should they - relate to each other? Does our yearning for 'wholeness' refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? This book offers a promising view of human relations.

Combining phenomenoogy and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Plato's parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called "world love, " the possibility and necessity for psychic survival of a profound and vital erotic investment by a human being in the cosmic surround.