ISBN:
9780415908429
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (496 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Visualizing Theory : Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈EM〉Visualizing Theory〈/EM〉 is a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in 〈EM〉Visual Anthropology Review〈/EM〉 between 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Reclaiming visual anthropology as a space for the critical representation of visual culture from the naive realist and exoticist inclinations that have beleaguered practitioners' efforts to date, 〈EM〉Visualizing Theory〈/EM〉 is a major intervention into this growing field
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Dedication; Foreword; one The Ethnographic and the Ipsographic; The Camera People; Whose Story Is It?; The Modernist Sensibility in Recent Ethnographic Writing and the Cinematic Metaphor of Montage; Trobrianders on Camera and Off; The Ethnographer's Tale; Artaud. Rouch. and the Cinema of Cruelty; Cannibal Tours; Trinh T. Minh-ha Observed: Anthropology and Others; Marketing Alterity; two Surrealism, Vision, and Cultural Criticism; Between the Street and the Salon: The Dilemma of Surrealist Politics in the 1930s
Description / Table of Contents:
Exquisite CorpsesThe Disenchantment of the Eye: Surrealism and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism; three Modernity's Mediations: The Scopic and the Haptic; Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds; The Memory of the Senses: Historical Perception. Commensal Exchange. and Modernity; Paranoiac Space; One-legged Gender; The Hand; Films of Memory; Manufacturing Vision; Post-Bourgeois Tattoo: Reflections on Skin Writing in Late Capitalist Societies; Family Matters: Postfeminist Constructions of a Contested Site; Remembering the Revolution. Forgetting the Empire: Notes after the French Bicentennial
Description / Table of Contents:
Simulations of Postmodernity: Images of Technology in African Tourist and Popular ArtThe Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes: The Example of National Geographic; BBC Domesday: The Social Construction of Britain on Videodisc; Future Travel; four Visualizing Theory: ""In Dialogue""; Speaking Nearby; Visualizing Theory; Contributors; Picture Credits
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
