Ambivalenzen der Sichtbarkeit

Ambivalenzen der Sichtbarkeit PDF Author: Johanna Schaffer
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839409934
Category : Art
Languages : de
Pages : 201

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Mit dem Topos »Sichtbarkeit« greift dieses Buch eine Denkfigur auf, die in den politischen Debatten um die Anerkennung marginalisierter Gruppen eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Wie aber können minorisierte Positionen visuell dargestellt werden, ohne in der Form ihrer Darstellung Minorisierung zu wiederholen? An dieser Schnittstelle zwischen ästhetischen, antirassistischen und queer-feministischen Fragestellungen setzt das Buch mit Mitteln der Visual-Culture-Forschung an. Dabei arbeitet es heraus, dass und wie sich Hegemonie grundlegend über ästhetische Formen herstellt. Die Frage der Sichtbarkeit wird somit in das Feld der visuellen Ästhetik und der Bilder rückübersetzt, um deren politische Bedeutung zu unterstreichen. Zudem werden analytische Begriffe und Figuren als Instrumentarien gegen Minorisierungen im visuellen Feld bereitgestellt.

Asian American Film Festivals

Asian American Film Festivals PDF Author: Erin Franziska Högerle
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110696533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Responding to a lack of studies on the film festival’s role in the production of cultural memory, this book explores different parameters through which film festivals shape our reception and memories of films. By focusing on two Asian American film festivals, this book analyzes the frames of memory that festivals create for their films, constructed through and circulated by the various festival media. It further establishes that festival locations—both cities and screening venues—play a significant role in shaping our experience of films. Finally, it shows that festivals produce performances which help guide audiences towards certain readings and direct the film’s role as a memory object. Bringing together film festival studies and memory studies, 'Asian American Film Festivals' offers a mixed-methods approach with which to explore the film festival phenomenon, thus shedding light on the complex dynamics of frames, locations, and performances shaping the festival’s memory practices. It also draws attention to the understudied genre of Asian American film festivals, showing how these festivals actively engage in constructing and performing a minority group’s collective identity and memory.

Feminist Philosophy of Technology

Feminist Philosophy of Technology PDF Author: Janina Loh
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3476049671
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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There has been little attention to feminism and gender issues in mainstream philosophy of technology and vice versa. Since the beginning of the so-called »second wave feminism« (in the middle of the 20th century), there has been a growing awareness of the urgency of a critical reflection of technology and science within feminist discourse. But feminist thinkers have not consistently interpreted technology and science as emancipative and liberating for the feminist movement. Because technological development is mostly embedded in social, political, and economic systems that are patriarchally hierarchized, many feminists criticized the structures of dominance, marginalization and oppression inherent in numerous technologies. Therefore, the question of defining and ascribing responsibility in technics and science is essential for this anthology – regarding for instance the technological transformation of labor, the life in the information society, and the relationship between humans and machines.

Normativity in Perception

Normativity in Perception PDF Author: Maxime Doyon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137377925
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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The ways in which human action and rationality are guided by norms are well documented in philosophy and neighboring disciplines. But how do norms shape the way we experience the world perceptually? The present volume explores this question and investigates the specific normativity inherent to perception.

On Disney

On Disney PDF Author: Ute Dettmar
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3662646250
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Disney – This name stands not only for a company that has had global reach from its early days, but also for a successful aesthetic programme and ideological positions that have had great commercial success but at the same time have been frequently criticised. Straddling traditionalism and modernism, Disney productions have proven adaptable to social discourses and technical and media developments throughout its history. This volume brings together scholars from several European countries to explore various dimensions that constitute ‘Disney.’ In line with current media and cultural studies research, the chapters deal with human-human and human-animal relations, gender and diversity, iconic characters and narratives, Disney’s contribution to cultural and visual heritage, and transmedial and transfictional spaces of experience and practices of participation associated with Disney story worlds.

Good White Queers?

Good White Queers? PDF Author: Kai Linke
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839449170
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse traces the intersections of queerness and racism in the neglected medium of queer comics, while a close reading of Jaime Cortez's striking graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio offers glimpses of the complexities and difficult truths that lie beyond the limits of the white queer imaginary.

The Women's Liberation Movement

The Women's Liberation Movement PDF Author: Kristina Schulz
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785335871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women’s Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent activist movements. This collection represents the first systematic investigation of WLM’s cumulative impacts and achievements within the West. Here, specialists on movements in Europe systematically investigate outcomes in different countries in the light of a reflective social movement theory, comparing them both implicitly and explicitly to developments in other parts of the world.

Sissi’s World

Sissi’s World PDF Author: Maura E. Hametz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501313452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with “the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.

Affective Images

Affective Images PDF Author: Marietta Kesting
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438467869
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender. Affective Images examines both canonical and lesser-known photographs and films that address the struggle against apartheid and the new struggles that came into being in post-apartheid times. Marietta Kesting argues for a way of embodied seeing and complements this with feminist and queer film studies, history of photography, media theory, and cultural studies. Featuring in-depth discussions of photographs, films, and other visual documents, Kesting then situates them in broader historical contexts, such as cultural history and the history of black subjectivity and revolves the images around the intersection of race and gender. In its interdisciplinary approach, this book explores the recurrence of affective images of the past in a different way, including flashbacks, trauma, “white noise,” and the return of the repressed. It draws its materials from photographers, filmmakers, and artists such as Ernest Cole, Simphiwe Nkwali, Terry Kurgan, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Adze Ugah, and the Center for Historical Reenactments. Marietta Kesting is Junior Professor for Media Theory at the CX Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany.

Turkish Migration, Identity and Integration

Turkish Migration, Identity and Integration PDF Author: Ibrahim Sirkeci
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1910781142
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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