ABSTRACT
In 2004, art historian Linda Nochlin delivered a series of lectures at Harvard University that focused on Renoir's Great Bathers, and the lectures led to Bathers, Bodies, and Beauty: The Visceral Eye. A subject has at least two connotations. On the one hand, a subject is more abstract and impersonal. For example, when authors discuss "the subject" in a sentence, scholars refer to the grammatical place in that sentence. On the other hand, subject also suggests "subject to" in the sense that one is under another's control or jurisdiction. Literature, film, and art often provide ideological analysis for scholars. Ideology's task is to hail, interpellate, or invite us to become subject to particular assumptions, social categories, values, attitudes, and roles. Use as scholars operating assumption the idea that literature, film, art, and institutions are ideological in that they hail, interpellate, or invite us to become subject to particular social categories, values, attitudes, roles, and identities.
