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- catalog abstract "Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Fields of Vision is a path-breaking collection that inquires into the power (and limits) of film and photography to make sense of ourselves and others. As critics, social scientists, filmmakers, and literary scholars, the contributors converge on the issues of representation and the construction of visual meaning across cultures. From the dismembered bodies of horror film to the exotic bodies of ethnographic film and the gorgeous bodies of romantic cinema, Fields of Vision moves through eras, genres, and societies. Always asking how images work to produce meaning, the essays address the way the "real" on film creates fantasy, news, as well as "science," and considers this problematic process as cultural boundaries are crossed. One essay discusses the effects of Hollywood's high-capital, world-wide commercial hegemony on local and non-Western cinemas, while another explores the response of indigenous people in central Australia to the forces of mass media and video. Other essays uncover the work of the unconscious in cinema, the shaping of "female spectatorship" by the "women's film" genre of the 1920s, and the effects of the personal and subjective in documentary films and the photographs of war reportage. -- Back cover.".
- catalog alternative "Essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography".
- catalog contributor b7440606.
- catalog contributor b7440607.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Fields of Vision is a path-breaking collection that inquires into the power (and limits) of film and photography to make sense of ourselves and others. As critics, social scientists, filmmakers, and literary scholars, the contributors converge on the issues of representation and the construction of visual meaning across cultures. From the dismembered bodies of horror film to the exotic bodies of ethnographic film and the gorgeous bodies of romantic cinema, Fields of Vision moves through eras, genres, and societies. Always asking how images work to produce meaning, the essays address the way the "real" on film creates fantasy, news, as well as "science," and considers this problematic process as cultural boundaries are crossed. One essay discusses the effects of Hollywood's high-capital, world-wide commercial hegemony on local and non-Western cinemas, while another explores the response of indigenous people in central Australia to the forces of mass media and video. Other essays uncover the work of the unconscious in cinema, the shaping of "female spectatorship" by the "women's film" genre of the 1920s, and the effects of the personal and subjective in documentary films and the photographs of war reportage. -- Back cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The national / Paul Willemen -- The modernist sensibility in recent ethnographic writing and the cinematic metaphor of montage / George E. Marcus -- Experience, re-presentation, and film / Leslie Deveraux -- Photography and film / Anne-Marie Willis -- Modernism and the photographic representation of war and destruction / Bernd Hüppauf -- Horror and the carnivalesque / Barbara Creed -- Barrymore, the body, and bliss / Gaylyn Studlar -- Narrative, sound, and film / Roger Hillman -- Novel into film / Gino Moliterno -- The subjective voice in ethnographic film / David MacDougall -- Mediating culture / Faye Ginsburg -- The pressure of the unconscious upon the image / Susan Dermody -- Robert Gardner's Rivers of sand / Peter Loizos -- Cultures, disciplines, cinemas / Leslie Devereaux.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 362 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520085221 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0520085248 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog subject "302.23/43 20".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures in ethnology.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "PN1994 .F433 1995".
- catalog subject "Photography.".
- catalog subject "Visual anthropology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The national / Paul Willemen -- The modernist sensibility in recent ethnographic writing and the cinematic metaphor of montage / George E. Marcus -- Experience, re-presentation, and film / Leslie Deveraux -- Photography and film / Anne-Marie Willis -- Modernism and the photographic representation of war and destruction / Bernd Hüppauf -- Horror and the carnivalesque / Barbara Creed -- Barrymore, the body, and bliss / Gaylyn Studlar -- Narrative, sound, and film / Roger Hillman -- Novel into film / Gino Moliterno -- The subjective voice in ethnographic film / David MacDougall -- Mediating culture / Faye Ginsburg -- The pressure of the unconscious upon the image / Susan Dermody -- Robert Gardner's Rivers of sand / Peter Loizos -- Cultures, disciplines, cinemas / Leslie Devereaux.".
- catalog title "Essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography".
- catalog title "Fields of vision : essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography / edited by Leslie Devereaux and Roger Hillman.".
- catalog type "text".