Screen LibraryBody between materiality and power : essays in visual studies /
This volume situates and problematizes the points of tension implicated in diverse historical and theoretical conceptualizations of the body through a visual studies framework. By proposing materiality and power as two polarities through which the body is mobilized, it highlights the interstitial fu...
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This volume situates and problematizes the points of tension implicated in diverse historical and theoretical conceptualizations of the body through a visual studies framework. By proposing materiality and power as two polarities through which the body is mobilized, it highlights the interstitial function of the body as a mediator between materiality and politics beyond the body/soul-mind dichotomy. Specifically, the book brings together complex analytical approaches to representations of the body in diverse media, such as the visual arts, television, film, literature, architecture, dance, and theatre, among others - Provided by the publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | xxv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-199). |
| ISBN: |
9781443895330 (hardcover) : 1443895334 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | N7625 |
| CLC: |
J04 J06 |
| Call Number: | J06/B668 |
| Contents: |
Introduction: the body between materiality and power / Transmutations: body and dictatorship in Chilean autobiographical documentaries of the 2000s / The disappeared and the significant re-materialization of the absent body: art and social activism in Argentina / Bodies, ruptures, and other voids in post-dictatorship Uruguayan representation / Embodiment of femicide in the work of Regina Jose Galindo / Cultural activism: spaces for a shared experience / Imagining the uprooted child: pain, evacuation, and World War II / Hyperproudtive factories: from Fordish discipline to "flexible" (self)exploitation/ An arts practice approach / Body visualization and power/knowledge / The subversions of the body: pleausre, monstrosity, destruction / My eyes haven't got enough hands: exhibit B / Food and the (dec)colonization of post-apartheid identities in South African visual art / "Afterwards": struggling with bodies in the dump of history / |