... This chapter turns to a visual effects studio in Chennai, examining the use of both 2d and 3d imaging techniques for the production of cinematic wonders in the form of religious spectacles. wonder visual effects digital religion spectacle ...

... wonder visual effects digital religion spectacle ...

... In the introduction I contend that Mexican and U.S. geographies are the effect of visualizing indios and Indians in landscape. If national boundaries and the way in which we visualize national geographies are derived from the racializing of space through the figure of the Indian, then "racial...

... “Image” explores the effects of what Don Ihde has called “visualism” on theoretical work being done in sound studies. It moves from a consideration of the otherwise improbable relevance of the image in thinking about sound to engagement with the role of the image in linguistic theories...

...Witnessing Chapter 5 tackles the “crisis of witnessing” associated with the demand imposed on Palestinians from both human rights NGOs and the global media to provide visual proof and eyewitness accounts of their suffering and hardship. The chapter engages with two essay films that the author...

... This chapter looks at some of the specific ways that sound and vision interact in the cinematic medium. Film is often approached as essentially visual, with the role of sound devalued, ignored, or misapprehended. This happens in large part because certain effects, feelings, and significations...

... that is in no sense over or past to those who live its effects in the place of the “remote” today. Aboriginal history painting biliterary and biliteracy Indigenous ficto-drama visual literacy Warakurna Artists ...

...Sound Transformed This chapter explores the ways that technology has changed the way sounds are made and experienced. Technological effects are broken into seven basic categories: capture, or the use of microphones to gather and convert sonic vibrations for immediate retransmission...

... in the orientation of the Islamic movement from macropolitics toward micropractices, while it challenges the borders and the meanings of the secular public sphere. This chapter discusses visual aspects of the religious-secular divide, blowing up a snapshot of contemporary Muslim actors entering public spaces. Public...

... to work in living organisms. It argues that rendering molecules as machines is a craft practice, one that makes it possible for practitioners to visualize and intervene in molecular worlds in particularly effective ways. This chapter takes a close look at machinic renderings at distinct historical moments...

...: the Hungarian A Tenkes kapitánya (The captain of the Tenkes, 1964) and the Polish Janosik (1974). Their success with audiences and the effectiveness of their political messages are rooted in three interrelated factors, all of which identify television entertainment as a key terrain for sustaining...

... The chapter analyzes the visual documentation and performance of terrorist embodiment by US state and commercial media for an audience of US consumers. Journalists and government and military officials use computer-generated imagery to reframe photography as the medium best suited to the work...

... Screening by full-body and biometric scanners provides US citizens and others traveling within the United States and select other nations the opportunity to distinguish themselves from would-be terrorists. Surveillance technologies render passengers’ three-dimensional bodies as flat visual...

... as signs of bourgeois identity and led to the burying of many photographs. Photographs remain politically charged in the present, their talismanic and magical properties being recognized by both government supporters and protestors. However, photographic effects are paradoxical: they proliferate...

...Hearing This chapter examines several evocative sonic landscapes in poetry, drama, and prose fiction. It uses these literary acoustic tableaux to introduce several key themes developed in the book: how the sonic register differs in significant ways from the visual, the relationship of sound...

... information about a given sound’s source. Other sounds are much less informative about the nature and even location of their provenance. There is a tendency to counteract the causal vagueness of many sounds by anchoring them visually. Such spatial magnetization of sounds—linking sound to source via vision—can...

... an effective ethical and political stance based on a logic of documentation that involves an act of witnessing one’s past failure “to see on time.” If the “crisis of witnessing” addressed in chapter 5 has do with the demand imposed on Palestinians to serve as witnesses of their own suffering, “the crisis...

... in these entrances through the effect of light, flash, generated through photography. One famed prom entrance dating from 2004 featured a young woman who orchestrated faux paparazzi to line the red carpet for the event. She did not hire the photographers to produce photographs (and in fact she did not retain...

... Venice at the turn of the sixteenth century; however, by its nature as a bird’s-eye view, it also conceals some essential aspects of the city. One of these is purely visual: for anybody viewing Venice at sea level, in 1500 or today, the image of the city would be defined by an element that fades...

... a present-continuous of a colonial history that is in no sense over or past to those who live its effects in the place of the “remote” today. Aboriginal history painting biliterary and biliteracy Indigenous ficto-drama visual literacy Warakurna Artists Digital capacities for the making...