Author: Carol Ota
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739121269
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Relay of Gazes is a demonstration that analysis of a variety of films and television programs is the key to revealing how dramatically Japan's image has evolved in recent decades. The films and programs analyzed include anime of Hayao Miyazaki, travelogue films of German director Wim Wenders, Japanese-American latter-day musical films, and U.S. television coverage of the Kobe earthquake and the Nagano Olympic Winter Games.
The Relay of Gazes
Author: Carol Ota
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739121269
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Relay of Gazes is a demonstration that analysis of a variety of films and television programs is the key to revealing how dramatically Japan's image has evolved in recent decades. The films and programs analyzed include anime of Hayao Miyazaki, travelogue films of German director Wim Wenders, Japanese-American latter-day musical films, and U.S. television coverage of the Kobe earthquake and the Nagano Olympic Winter Games.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739121269
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Relay of Gazes is a demonstration that analysis of a variety of films and television programs is the key to revealing how dramatically Japan's image has evolved in recent decades. The films and programs analyzed include anime of Hayao Miyazaki, travelogue films of German director Wim Wenders, Japanese-American latter-day musical films, and U.S. television coverage of the Kobe earthquake and the Nagano Olympic Winter Games.
Race under Reconstruction in German Cinema
Author: Angelica Fenner
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442661879
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema investigates postwar racial formations via a pivotal West German film by one of the most popular and prolific directors of the era. The release of Robert Stemmle's Toxi (1952) coincided with the enrolment in West German schools of the first five hundred Afro-German children fathered by African-American occupation soldiers. The didactic plot traces the ideological conflicts that arise among members of a patrician family when they encounter an Afro-German child seeking adoption, herein broaching issues of integration at a time when the American civil rights movement was gaining momentum and encountering violent resistance. Perceptions of 'Blackness' in Toxi demonstrate continuities with those prevailing in Wilhelmine Germany, but also signal the influence of American social science discourse and tropes originating in icons of American popular culture, such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, Birth of a Nation, and several Shirley Temple films. By applying a Cultural Studies approach to individual film sequences, publicity photos, and press reviews, Angelica Fenner relates West German discourses around race and integration to emerging economic and political anxieties, class antagonism, and the reinstatement of conventional gender roles. The film Toxi is now available on DVD from the DEFA Film Library.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442661879
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema investigates postwar racial formations via a pivotal West German film by one of the most popular and prolific directors of the era. The release of Robert Stemmle's Toxi (1952) coincided with the enrolment in West German schools of the first five hundred Afro-German children fathered by African-American occupation soldiers. The didactic plot traces the ideological conflicts that arise among members of a patrician family when they encounter an Afro-German child seeking adoption, herein broaching issues of integration at a time when the American civil rights movement was gaining momentum and encountering violent resistance. Perceptions of 'Blackness' in Toxi demonstrate continuities with those prevailing in Wilhelmine Germany, but also signal the influence of American social science discourse and tropes originating in icons of American popular culture, such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, Birth of a Nation, and several Shirley Temple films. By applying a Cultural Studies approach to individual film sequences, publicity photos, and press reviews, Angelica Fenner relates West German discourses around race and integration to emerging economic and political anxieties, class antagonism, and the reinstatement of conventional gender roles. The film Toxi is now available on DVD from the DEFA Film Library.
Staging the Gaze
Author: Barbara Freedman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801497377
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801497377
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2
Author: Hamid Naficy
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822347741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Social history of Iranian cinema that explores cinema's role in creating national identity and contextualizes Iranian cinema within an international arena.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822347741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Social history of Iranian cinema that explores cinema's role in creating national identity and contextualizes Iranian cinema within an international arena.
Optomotor Reflexes and Nystagmus
Author: Marco Keiner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401767645
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401767645
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Textbook Of Clinical Ophthalmology, A: A Practical Guide To Disorders Of The Eyes And Their Management (2nd Edition)
Author: Ronald Pitts Crick
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 9813104864
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
This comprehensive and well-illustrated book provides a reasoned approach to the everyday practice of ophthalmology. This new edition has been updated to include contributions by thirteen highly qualified ophthalmologists with special experience in many aspects of the subject. Stereo photographs are included because some eye conditions require depth perception for a real understanding of their nature.Written to emphasise aspects found over many years to be of practical importance in a large undergraduate teaching hospital and two eye hospitals, it will be especially useful to medical students as well as general practitioners and ophthalmologists-in-training. In particular, the section on “Common Ophthalmic Problems” which, like a “book within a book”, indicates to students the most important eye conditions for study.The new edition has been expanded to include the latest advances in research and practice. It has been thoroughly revised and includes contributions from thirteen specialist sub-editors 20% of the Royalties from this book will be denoted to the patient based International Glaucoma AssociationIs Not Only:a student texta colour atlas with legendsan account of sophisticated techniquesBut Also:a reasoned, practical guide to the study of ophthalmologyembraces diseases worldwide and basic methods of investigation and treatment where applicableincludes ‘a book within a book’ of common ophthalmic problems, essential for students, optometrists and general practitioners with full cross references and indexingpresents stereo colour plates where in depth perception aids understandingThis Second Edition is:UpdatedExpandedComprehensiveAuthoritative
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 9813104864
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
This comprehensive and well-illustrated book provides a reasoned approach to the everyday practice of ophthalmology. This new edition has been updated to include contributions by thirteen highly qualified ophthalmologists with special experience in many aspects of the subject. Stereo photographs are included because some eye conditions require depth perception for a real understanding of their nature.Written to emphasise aspects found over many years to be of practical importance in a large undergraduate teaching hospital and two eye hospitals, it will be especially useful to medical students as well as general practitioners and ophthalmologists-in-training. In particular, the section on “Common Ophthalmic Problems” which, like a “book within a book”, indicates to students the most important eye conditions for study.The new edition has been expanded to include the latest advances in research and practice. It has been thoroughly revised and includes contributions from thirteen specialist sub-editors 20% of the Royalties from this book will be denoted to the patient based International Glaucoma AssociationIs Not Only:a student texta colour atlas with legendsan account of sophisticated techniquesBut Also:a reasoned, practical guide to the study of ophthalmologyembraces diseases worldwide and basic methods of investigation and treatment where applicableincludes ‘a book within a book’ of common ophthalmic problems, essential for students, optometrists and general practitioners with full cross references and indexingpresents stereo colour plates where in depth perception aids understandingThis Second Edition is:UpdatedExpandedComprehensiveAuthoritative
Stud
Author: Joel Sanders
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000023141
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity. Architects, artists, and theorists investigate how sexuality is constituted through the organization of materials, objects, and human subjects in actual space. This collection of essays and visual projects critically analyzes the spaces that we habitually take for granted but that quietly participates in the manufacturing of "maleness." Employing a variety of critical perspectives (feminism, "queer theory," deconstruction, and psychoanalysis), Stud's contributors reveal how masculinity, always an unstable construct, is coded in our environment. Stud also addresses the relationship between architecture and gay male sexuality, illustrating the resourceful ways that gay men have appropriated and reordered everyday public domains, from streets to sex clubs, in the formation of gay social space.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000023141
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity. Architects, artists, and theorists investigate how sexuality is constituted through the organization of materials, objects, and human subjects in actual space. This collection of essays and visual projects critically analyzes the spaces that we habitually take for granted but that quietly participates in the manufacturing of "maleness." Employing a variety of critical perspectives (feminism, "queer theory," deconstruction, and psychoanalysis), Stud's contributors reveal how masculinity, always an unstable construct, is coded in our environment. Stud also addresses the relationship between architecture and gay male sexuality, illustrating the resourceful ways that gay men have appropriated and reordered everyday public domains, from streets to sex clubs, in the formation of gay social space.
Vader, Voldemort and Other Villains
Author: Jamey Heit
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786485108
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
What is evil? How do we understand it in our culture? The thirteen essays in this critical volume explore the different ways in which evil is portrayed in popular culture, particularly film and novels. Iconic figures of evil are considered, as is the repeated use of classic themes within our intellectual tradition. Topics covered include serial killers in film, the Twilight series, the Harry Potter series, Star Wars, and more. Collectively, these essays suggest how vital the notion of evil is to our culture, which in turn suggest a need to reflect on what it means to value what is good.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786485108
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
What is evil? How do we understand it in our culture? The thirteen essays in this critical volume explore the different ways in which evil is portrayed in popular culture, particularly film and novels. Iconic figures of evil are considered, as is the repeated use of classic themes within our intellectual tradition. Topics covered include serial killers in film, the Twilight series, the Harry Potter series, Star Wars, and more. Collectively, these essays suggest how vital the notion of evil is to our culture, which in turn suggest a need to reflect on what it means to value what is good.
No Image There and the Gaze Remains
Author: Catherine Karaguezian
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135489912
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
To date, no book-length study of the work of poet Jorie Graham has been published. Graham now holds the prestigious Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University; recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize, Graham has established herself as one of the most important poets of her generation. This book addresses the connection between Graham's work and the legacy of American Modernism, arguing that her recurring interest in the visible world and how best to represent it in her poetry can be seen as a continuation of the work of Eliot and Stevens. For Graham, the visible world is a means of approaching the ineffable, or the divine. The poet's approach to the ineffable in her work is conflated at times with the relationship between the self and the other: maintaining the integrity of both and accurately representing the truth of what she sees become a moral project for the poet, aligning her work with that of the Moderns. The book addresses Graham's entire body of work, now nine books of poetry, and interprets her poetic preoccupation with visuality through the lens of psychoanalytic criticism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135489912
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
To date, no book-length study of the work of poet Jorie Graham has been published. Graham now holds the prestigious Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University; recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize, Graham has established herself as one of the most important poets of her generation. This book addresses the connection between Graham's work and the legacy of American Modernism, arguing that her recurring interest in the visible world and how best to represent it in her poetry can be seen as a continuation of the work of Eliot and Stevens. For Graham, the visible world is a means of approaching the ineffable, or the divine. The poet's approach to the ineffable in her work is conflated at times with the relationship between the self and the other: maintaining the integrity of both and accurately representing the truth of what she sees become a moral project for the poet, aligning her work with that of the Moderns. The book addresses Graham's entire body of work, now nine books of poetry, and interprets her poetic preoccupation with visuality through the lens of psychoanalytic criticism.
Chinese Revolutionary Cinema
Author: Jessica Ka Yee Chan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786734346
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Engaging with fiction films devoted to heroic tales from the decade and a half between 1949 and 1966, this book reconceives state propaganda as aesthetic experiments that not only radically transformed acting, cinematography and screenwriting in socialist China, but also articulated a new socialist film theory and criticism. Rooted in the interwar avant-garde and commercial cinema, Chinese revolutionary cinema, as a state cinema for the newly established People's Republic, adapted Chinese literature for the screen, incorporated Hollywood narration, appropriated Soviet montage theory and orchestrated a new, glamorous, socialist star culture. In the wake of decolonisation, Chinese film journals were quick to project and disseminate the country's redefined self-image to Asia, Africa and Latin America as they helped to create an alternative vision of modernity and internationalism. Revealing the historical contingency of the term 'propaganda', Chan uncovers the visual, aural, kinaesthetic, sexual and ideological dynamics that gave rise to a new aesthetic of revolutionary heroism in world cinema. Based on extensive archival research, this book's focus on the distinctive rhetoric of post-war socialist China will be of value to East Asian Cinema scholars, Chinese Studies academics and those interested in the history of twentieth-century socialist culture.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786734346
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Engaging with fiction films devoted to heroic tales from the decade and a half between 1949 and 1966, this book reconceives state propaganda as aesthetic experiments that not only radically transformed acting, cinematography and screenwriting in socialist China, but also articulated a new socialist film theory and criticism. Rooted in the interwar avant-garde and commercial cinema, Chinese revolutionary cinema, as a state cinema for the newly established People's Republic, adapted Chinese literature for the screen, incorporated Hollywood narration, appropriated Soviet montage theory and orchestrated a new, glamorous, socialist star culture. In the wake of decolonisation, Chinese film journals were quick to project and disseminate the country's redefined self-image to Asia, Africa and Latin America as they helped to create an alternative vision of modernity and internationalism. Revealing the historical contingency of the term 'propaganda', Chan uncovers the visual, aural, kinaesthetic, sexual and ideological dynamics that gave rise to a new aesthetic of revolutionary heroism in world cinema. Based on extensive archival research, this book's focus on the distinctive rhetoric of post-war socialist China will be of value to East Asian Cinema scholars, Chinese Studies academics and those interested in the history of twentieth-century socialist culture.