Visual sense : a cultural reader / edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Kaushik Bhaumik.
| Other author | Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952- |
| Other author | Bhaumik, Kaushik. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008. |
| Description | xiii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Sensory formations, 1741-4725 Sensory formations series. ^A574495 |
| Contents | pt. 1. Introduction. Visual sense and cultures of sight : an introduction -- |
| Contents | pt. 2. Labyrinth. The intertwining - the chiasm / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Labyrinthine complexities : the Ottoman harem as seen by Western orientalists / Alain Grosrichard -- The blind in the early Christian world / Mosche Barasch -- Seeing and feeling in the Middle Ages / Suzannah Biernoff -- The light of Wangarr / Howard Morphy -- Corpore obscure : meditation on the dead in Thailand / Alan Klima -- The imaginary body : the grotesque / Susan Stewart -- Lifting the veil : shared cultural values of control / Patrice Caldwell -- Jacqueline Onassis and the look-alike / Jane Gaines -- |
| Contents | pt. 3. Orderings. Attention and the values of nature in the Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston -- Scientific seeing : commodities, curiosities and anthropological objects / Andrew Zimmerman -- Science, sight and the ordering of colonial societies / Fernando Feliú -- Gossip and the creation of cinematic space / Rachel Dwyer -- The films of Fritz Lang / Tom Gunning -- Viewer's view : looking at pictures / Gulam Mohammed Sheikh -- An Andean cosmology / Constance Classen -- Witness of history : student photography and reformasi politics in Indonesia / Karen Strassler -- The naming of a heroine / Norma Field -- |
| Contents | pt. 4. Creating. Photography, elegance and the aesthetics of citizenship / Liam Buckley -- Akira, postmodernism and resistance / Isolde Standish -- Patriotism and nationalism : the face of consensus : mid-twentieth century and the image of Jesus / David Morgan -- The illumination of Christ in the Kalahari Desert / Paul Landau -- Quetzalcóatl's mirror / Lois Parkinson Zamora -- Photographs, orality and history / Elizabeth Edwards -- Sound film - worthy of the name / Michel Chion -- Cinema and history : Jean-Luc Godard in conversation with Youssef Ishaghpour / Jean-Luc Godard -- Madonna's revenge / Annalee Newitz -- A fascist theme park / Marla S. Stone -- |
| Contents | pt. 5. Ruptures. The railway journey : panoramic travel / Wolfgang Schivelbusch -- The secrets of gas / Lynda Nead -- Supermodernity : from places to non-places / Marc Augé -- Camille Pissarro : the unassuming eye / Linda Nochlin -- The wicked queen : Marie-Antoinette / Chantal Thomas -- Between cult and culture : Bamiyan Islamic iconoclasm and the museum / Finbarr Barry Flood -- The creation of a Tibetan modernist : the painting of Gonkar Gyantso / Clare Harris -- Extraordinary vision and the two sides of cloth / Elisha P. Renne -- The spiritual history of ice / Eric G. Wilson -- |
| Contents | pt. 6. Extensions. The eye of the storm : visual perception and the weather / Tim Ingold -- Basinjom and the witches / Robert Faris Thompson -- The cultural reception of early cinema in Russia / Yuri Tsivian -- Haptic cinema / Laura U. Marks -- Chris Marker : memories of the future / Catherine Lupton -- What do pictures want now : rural consumers of images in India / Christopher Pinney -- Surgical vision and digital culture / Jan Eric Olsén -- In the service of ben comun : visions of good and bad government in Siena / Timothy Hyman -- Intimate immensity / Gaston Bachelard. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-454) and index. |
| LCCN | 2009278861 |
| ISBN | 9781845207403 |
| ISBN | 1845207408 |
| ISBN | 9781845207410 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1845207416 (pbk.) |