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...Keya Ganguly Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1996 Carnal Knowledge: Visuality and the Modern in Charulata Keya Ganguly There is such a thing as a special subject for the cmema...

... fellow and a research associate in the Department of Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. © 2011 by Camera Obscura Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape (2007) DVD menu The Black Visual Experience: Hendrix, Porn, and Authenticity Ariane Cruz Since 29 April 2008, when Vivid...

...Thomas Foster This essay analyzes a postcyberpunk science fiction story by Ted Chiang, an Asian American writer. The story speculates on the technological manipulation of visual perception through the direct modification of visual processing structures in the human brain. It focuses...

...Jasmine Nichole Cobb In this interview, artist and scholar Deborah Willis describes the work of excavating and organizing the history of Black photography. Willis’s groundbreaking scholarship helped to formally establish an archive of Black visual practice before libraries and cultural institutions...

...Noliwe Rooks Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 By Any Other Name: SweetJustice, Cicely Tyson, and Contemporary Visual Politics Noliwe Rooks The opening credits of NBC’s short lived series, Sweet Justice, almost succeed in visually explicating the show’s...

...Lisbeth Gant-Britton Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Molzday’s Girls (Ngozi Onwurah, 1993) African Women and Visual Culture: A Sample Syllabus Lis beth Gant-Britton Go to any cinema in the United States-or other western country for that matter...

...William Anthony Nericcio Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1996 Autopsy of a Rat: Odd, Sundry Parables of Freddy Lopez, Speedy Gonzales, and Other Chicano/Latino Marionettes Prancing About Our First World Visual Emporium...

...Jessica Brent Camera Obscura 2004 Jessica Brent recently received her Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, where she completed her dissertation on narrative and visual experience in nineteenth-century texts and early film. The Lodger (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, UK, 1926) Beyond...

... Page 105 Turkish Cinema in the New Europe: Visualizing Ethnic Conflict in Sinan Çetin’s Berlin in Berlin Angelica Fenner The Turkish media landscape underwent sweeping changes in the 1990s...

... was transgender identities and modernism. Figure 1. Romaine Brooks, Una, Lady Troubridge (1924). Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Artist Peter (A Young English Girl) : Visualizing Transgender Masculinities Melanie Taylor “To be myself . . . I need...

...Jacinda S. Tran Abstract As the most documented war, “Vietnam” established visualizing infrastructures of search and destroy — the imperative to look in order to gather information and thereby inflict violence. This article considers Hanoi‐based artist Nguyễn Trinh Thi's short film Landscape Series...

... domains of war and political machinations. While one film takes on a serious ethical polemic (the innocent lives of civilians caught in the visual crosshairs of drone cameras) and the latter is a romantic comedy following the adventures of a journalist in Afghanistan, both visually capture important...

...Alessandra Raengo This essay pursues an understanding of the blackness of black cinema that is unhinged from the body of the maker or the content of the image. It does so by reading blackness through the visual paradigm of the shadow — that is, as a blackness that cannot, other than ideologically...

... Strategies in Palestinian Queer and Women's Filmmaking” uniquely focused on questions of queerness and Palestine through a program of eight new Palestinian visual productions. The program brought together Palestinian film scholars, filmmakers, visual artists, and curators for a discussion of queer...

... side by side, looking closely at how changes in the visualization and datafication of medical diagnosis developed alongside the ways computers were imagined into visual, screen-based technologies that recapitulate the same racialized and gendered logics of medical surveillance and thus of the state...

... in relation to feminist politics, on one hand, and popular culture, on the other? When does self-representation overstep the boundary between sexual valorization and prurient commodification? How, in turn, should a female viewer respond to erotic visual material produced by a woman? In order to understand...

...Eden Osucha This essay explores how the early history of the American right to privacy, first expressed in the law as a right to media privacy, reflects the racialization of concepts of privacy and publicity in nineteenth-century visual culture. Where standard scholarly treatments focus...

... BeautifulAgony.com , a site exclusively focusing on the face of orgasm. Using Tom Gunning's research on the gnostic impulse of cinema, or the drive to reveal “new visual knowledge” through technology, I interrogate hard-core representation in the context of visual media and knowledge production. Beautiful Agony's...

..., and the author's relationship to him, and instead insists on piecing together the past from a variety of angles. This article focuses on how the queer qualities of contingency and partiality that Fun Home produces around sexuality and the Bechdel family's history is an effect of the author's use of the visual...

... of the protagonist's desire. In Knocked Up (dir. Judd Apatow, US, 2007), the film's visuals and its staging of visuality work against the rom-com conventions that the film draws upon, resisting the plot's forward movement into heteronormativity. The article ends by examining The Hangover (dir. Todd Phillips, US, 2009...