Staring
Subtitle: how we look
By: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780195326796; 9780195326802
Subjects: Gaze
Description: Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, the author tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored, the human stare. She defines staring, explores the biological and psychological factors that motivate it, and considers the targets and the effects of the stare.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.