TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,Elizabeth
AU  - Bhaumik,Kaushik
TI  - Visual sense: a cultural reader 
T2  - Sensory formations,
SN  - 1845207408
AV  - GN452.5 .V578 2008
U1  - 152.14 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Berg
KW  - Visual perception
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-454) and index; Part 1; Introduction --; 1.1; Visual Sense and Cultures of Sight: An Introduction --; Part 2; Labyrinth --; 2.1; Section Introduction --; 2.2; The Intertwining-the Chiasm; Maurice Merleau-Ponty --; 2.3; Labyrinthine Complexities: The Ottoman Harem as Seen by Western Orientalists; Alain Grosrichard --; 2.4; The Blind in the Early Christian World; Mosche Barasch --; 2.5; Seeing and Feeling in the Middle Ages; Suzannah Biernoff --; 2.6; The Light of Wangarr; Howard Morphy --; 2.7; Corpore Obscuro: Meditation on the Dead in Thailand; Alan Klima --; 2.8; The Imaginary Body: The Grotesque; Susan Stewart --; 2.9; Lifting the Veil: Shared Cultural Values of Control; Patrice Caldwell --; 2.10; Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike; Jane Gaines --; Part 3; Orderings --; 3.1; Section Introduction --; 3.2; Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment; Lorraine Daston --; 3.3; Scientific Seeing: Commodities, Curiosities, and Anthropological Objects; Andrew Zimmerman --; 3.4; Science, Sight and the Ordering of Colonial Societies; Fernando Feliu --; 3.5; Gossip and the Creation of Cinematic Space; Rachel Dwyer --; 3.6; The Films of Fritz Lang; Tom Gunning --; 3.7; Viewer's View: Looking at Pictures; Gulam Mohammed Sheikh --; 3.8; An Andean Cosmology; Constance Classen --; 3.9; Witness of History: Student Photography and reformasi Politics in Indonesia; Karen Strassler --; 3.10; The Naming of a Heroine; Norma Field --; Part 4; Creating --; 4.1; Section Introduction --; 4.2; Photography, Elegance and the Aesthetics of Citizenship; Liam Buckley --; 4.3; Akira, Postmodernismand Resistance; Isolde Standish --; 4.4; Patriotism and Nationalism: The Face of Consensus: Mid-Twentieth Century and the Image of Jesus; David Morgan --; 4.5; The Illumination of Christ in the Kalahari Desert; Paul Landau --; 4.6; Quetzalcoatl's Mirror; Lois Parkinson Zamora --; 4.7; Photographs, Orality and History; Elizabeth Edwards --; 4.8; Sound Film-Worthy of the Name; Michel Chion --; 4.9; Cinema and History: Jean-Luc Godard in Conversation with Youssef Ishaghpour; Jean-Luc Godard --; 4.10; Madonna's Revenge; Annalee Newitz --; 4.11; A Fascist Theme Park; Marla S. Stone --; Part 5; Ruptures --; 5.1; Section Introduction --; 5.2; The Railway Journey: Panoramic Travel; Wolfgang Schivelbusch --; 5.3; The Secrets of Gas; Lynda Nead --; 5.4; Supermodernity: From Places to Non-Places; Marc Auge --; 5.5; Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye; Linda Nochlin --; 5.6; The Wicked Queen: Marie-Antoinette; Chantal Thomas --; 5.7; Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm and the Museum; Finbarr Barry Flood --; 5.8; The Creation of a Tibetan Modernist: The Painting of Gonkar Gyantso; Clare Harris --; 5.9; Extraordinary Vision and the Two Sides of Cloth; Elisha P. Renne --; 5.10; The Spiritual History of Ice; Eric G. Wilson --; Part 6; Extensions --; 6.1; Section Introduction --; 6.2; The Eye of the Storm: Visual Perception and the Weather; Tim Ingold --; 6.3; Basinjom and the Witches; Robert Faris Thompson --; 6.4; The Cultural Reception of Early Cinema in Russia; Yuri Tsivian --; 6.5; Haptic Cinema; Laura U. Marks --; 6.6; Chris Marker: Memories of the Future; Catherine Lupton --; 6.7; What Do Pictures Want Now: Rural Consumers of Images in India; Christopher Pinney --; 6.8; Surgical Vision and Digital Culture; Jan Eric Olsen --; 6.9; In the Service of Ben Comun: Visions of Good and Bad Government in Siena; Timothy Hyman --; 6.10; Intimate Immensity; Gaston Bachelard
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