Visual sense. A cultural reader

Sobre el libro Visual sense. A cultural reader de Kaushik (ed) Bhaumik i Elizabeth (ED) Edwards publicado por Berg al 2008:

Contents: IllustrationsAcknowledgementsQuote: Merleau-Ponty1. Introduction2. Labyrinth2.1. Section Introduction2.2. Merleau-Ponty, ´The Intertwining - Chiasm´ 2.3. Alain Grosrichard, ´Labyrinthine Complexities: The Ottoman Harem as seen by Western Orientalists´2.4. Mosche Barasch, ´The Blind in the Early Christian World´2.5. Susanna Biernoff , ´Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages´2.6. Howard Morphy, ´The Light of Wangarr´2.7. Alan Klima, ´Corpore Obscuro: Meditation on the Dead in Thailand´2.8. Susan Stewart, ´On Longing: The Grotesque´2.9. Patrice Caldwell, ´Lifting the Veil: Shared Culture Values of Control´ 2.10. Jane Gaines, ´Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike.´ 3. Orderings3.1.Section Introduction3.2. Lorraine Daston, ´Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment´3.3. Andrew Zimmerman, ´Scientific Seeing: Commodities, Curiosities, and Anthropological Object´3.4. F. Feliu, ´Science, Sight and the Ordering of Colonial Societies´3.5. Rachel Dwyer, ´Gossip and the Creation of Cinematic Space´3.6. Tom Gunning, ´The Films of Fritz Lang´3.7. Gulammohammed Sheikh, ´Viewer´s View: Looking at Pictures´3.8. Constance Classen, ´An Andean Cosmology´3.9. Karen Strassler ´Witness of History: Student Photography and Reformasi Politics in Indonesia´3.10. Norma Field, ´The Naming of a Heroine´4. Creating4.1. Section Introduction4.2. Liam Buckley, ´Photography, Elegance and the Aesthetics of Citizenship´4.3. Isolde Standish, ´Akira Postmodernism and Resistance´ 4.4. David Morgan, ´Patriotism and Nationalism: The Face of Consensus: Mid-Twentieth Century and the Image of Jesus´4.5. Paul Landau, ´The Illumination of Christ in the Kalahari´ 4.6. Lois Parkinson Zamora, ´Quetzalcoatl´s Mirror´ 4.7. Elizabeth Edwards, ´Photography and the Sound of History´4.8. Michel Chion, ´Sound Film - Worthy of the Name´4.9. Jean-Luc Godard, ´Cinema and History: In Conversation with Youssef Ishaghpour.´4.10. Annalee Newitz, ´Madonna´s Revenge" 4.11. Marla S. Stone, "A Fascist Theme Park" 5. Ruptures5.1. Section Introduction5.2. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, ´The Railway Journey - Panoramic Travel´5.3. Lynda Nead, ´The Secret of Gas´5.4. Marc Auge , ´Supermodernity: From Places to Non-Placed´5.5. Linda Nochlin, ´Camille Pissaro: The Unassuming Eye´5.6.Chantel Thomas, ´The Wicked Queen: Marie-Antoinette´5.7. Finbarr Barry Flood, ´Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan and Iconoclasm´5.8. Clare Harris, ´The Creation of a Tibetan Modernist: The Painting of Gonkar Gyantso´ 5.9. Elisha Renne, ´Extraordinary Vision and Two Sides of Cloth´5.10. Eric G.Wilson, ´The Spiritual History of Ice´6. Extensions6.1. Section Introduction6.2. Tim Ingold, ´The Eye of the Storm: Visual Perception and the Weather´6.3. Robert Faris Thompson, ´Basnjom and the Witches´ 6.4. Yuri Tsivian, ´The Cultural reception of Early Russian Cinema´6.5. Laura U. Marks, ´Haptic Cinema´6.6. Catherine Lupton, ´Chris Marker: Memories of the Future´6.7. Christopher Pinney, ´What Do Pictures Want Now? Rural Consumers of Images in India´6.8. Jan Eric Olsen, ´Surgical Vision and Digital Culture´ 6.9.Tim Hyman, ´In the Service of Ben Comun: Visions of Good and Bad Government in Siena´6.10. Gaston Bachelard, ´Intimate Immensity´Final Quote7. Selected BibliographyContributorsCopyright acknowledgements