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A young girl, braids and bangs of dark brown hair, a pleated red plaid skirt, is taken by the hand by her mother into a ladies’ store, a shopping space, a commercial place. Amidst racks of price tagged merchandise, she finds her favourite refuge, her site of excitement, her place of play — she always, every time, abandons her mother to the fluorescence of fashion and encloses herself in a three-way mirror.
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Peter Wollen, ‘Ontology and materialism in film’, Screen vol. 17 no. 1 (Spring 1976), pp. 7–23.
Christian Metz, Film Language (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1974) and Language and Cinema (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1974).
Roland Barthes, ‘The Third Meaning’, Artforum vol. 11 no. 5 (January 1973) and Jean-Louis Schefer, Scénographie d’un tableau (Paris: Seuil, 1969).
Laura Mulvey, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, Screen vol. 16 no. 3 (Autumn 1975), pp. 6–18; Christian Metz, ‘Le signifiant imaginaire’, Communications no. 23 (1975), pp. 3–55; translation ‘The Imaginary Signifier’, Screen vol. 16 no. 2 (Summer 1975), pp. 14–76.
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Turim, M. (1980). The Place of Visual Illusions. In: de Lauretis, T., Heath, S. (eds) The Cinematic Apparatus. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16401-1_11
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