... physically toward the source of the playing and emotionally in response to it; and the listening gaze involves the shock of recognition when a performer looks right back at us during a performance. This interpretive approach draws on theories of visuality from film studies, which can be applied to cinematic...

... pastoralism in art and literature Enlightenment pastoralism mapmaking painting cameralism visuality statistics Fedor Aekseev Gerhard Friedrich Müller Vasilii Ruban It was critical to the regime’s goals that Moscow’s reconstruction as an enlightened metropolis take place not only in physical reality...

..., and as key to shaping ideologies of gender and politics. The movement of the child from the periphery of culture to the center and the interest in visual culture combined to produce a range of visually compelling magazines for children. Writers conveyed their visions of the past and present, and their future...

...&A), this chapter discusses the spy-glass keepsake’s role as both a visual record of the Sydenham Crystal Palace and as an emblem of popular visual memories of the site. Such keepsakes stand testimony to a prevalent affection or fondness for the Palace in the latter part of the nineteenth century, or at the very...

... to the deadly stretch of desert known as the “corridor of death,” where his body is ultimately found. The author examines the film alongside a range of other contemporary visual and new media texts, including the Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/B.A.N.G. Lab’s 2010 “Transborder Immigrant Tool” and John Craig...

... particular technocentric and national understanding made models performative, as they organized history into a spectacle for the educated male gaze of Soviet model enthusiasts. The chapter also addresses the themes of the public space, performativity, and visuality. Benjamin Walter children and childhood...

... Caballud Luis Calvo Keman Portos Martín Álvarez Blanco Palmar Gómez López Quiñones Antonio Marks Laura Deleuze Gilles Philippopoulos Mihalopoulos Andreas Production of space spatial justice urban planning haptic visuality right to the city graffiti crisis cinema The Universal Exposition aims...

... Kolatkar Dean MacCannell John Urry visuality In the poem that opens Elizabeth Bishop’s Questions of Travel (1965), “Arrival at Santos,” the speaker addresses herself as a “tourist.” She wryly glosses the term as someone who has “immodest demands for a different world, / and a better...

...Drawing upon media accounts of Black Hawk’s 1833 “tour” of eastern cities, this chapter explores attempts at rendering visuality, and that which is visually perceptible, through words; and how attempts at making readers “see” Black Hawk through words was coterminous with conditions of Black Hawk’s...

..., looking at the clash of these mandates as a source of crisis for states. It also engages Louise Amoore’s notion that visuality functions as a key sense and affective register to enact sovereign power to “secure the nation.” Through such affective registers, state and media engage the public, and visuality...

...). The chapter argues that the many voices within The Blindness Series, both metaphorical and material, speak to the limitations of visuality. Speaking in many tongues and sometimes in the nonverbal diction of whispers, groans, and cries, these voices speak about what is outside visual...

...This chapter focuses on the multiple intersections between the cultural discourse of science fiction and the medium of video games. It argues for visuality and simulation as alternatives to narrative as tools of science-fictionality. It also suggests that SF video games are, among the genre’s media...

...This essay suggests that a painting or illustration is an appropriate and important place from which to begin speaking about poetics and narrative; that indeed, so many visual or otherwise nonverbal elements of a culture can be the right place from which to start speaking of textuality. As Emmerson...

... read as an instance of medievalism, perpetuating as well as re-evaluating the widespread association of the Middle Ages with violence. An awareness of this intertext allows a nuanced interpretation of Inglourious Basterds’ stance on the power as well as manipulability of visual signs...

..., the provisional ‘meaning’ of a photograph at any one time. This radical provisionality is specific to the photo-text and an important element of photography's fictionality. The book has also discussed three dimensions of the photo-text: orality, visuality, and textuality (writing). Barbey Bruno Barthes Roland...

...This chapter draws on Takashi Murakami’s notion of superflat art in order to reconceptualize and delineate superflat visuality away from Japanese visual traditions, and map it through the transforming landscape of computer technologies and new media—the defining forces in changing our modes...

... places viewers in partial and sensory encounters with the life-worlds of the subjects they encounter.’ India Indians aesthetics Aumont Jacques gaze haptic aesthetics mise en scène optical visuality aesthetics stereotypes Appadurai Arjun Cardiff Wales Gujeratis Crossings Sharma Gujerati...

...This chapter examines the way in which alterity is visually represented in Western media coverage of humanitarian disasters in the global South in terms of either pathologisation or victimization. It contends that the visual representation and mediation of distant events and persons have had...

... the stimuli and resources of everyday visuality which surrounds us, and yet generally is under-theorized within social work. By drawing upon and working with the visual, this method assumes an inclusive position which acknowledges multi modal learning styles. This may assist all students to move beyond...

...This chapter examines emergent visual practices developed by elite free Black women within the confines of Black parlors. Focusing on free Black women's friendship albums, a popular form of sentimentalism, the chapter investigates how notable Black abolitionist women cultivated an “optics...