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... that in a Shakespearean production one man in the stalls with a cigar could bring about the downfall of Western art. He might aswelllight a bomb aslight acigar.10 The second quotation is a verbal one, split into two parts, the first recited by Danielle Huillet as she strokes the cat, and continued by the man...

...” Western audiences about oppression on the “dark continent.” The article focuses on the respective story lines, which indict Western corporations, and on the directors' manipulation of lightness and darkness as a means of literally rendering Western exploitation visible. Despite this potential, however...

... of opacity shifts discussions of seeing and knowing toward situatedness, partiality, and the limits of the Western gaze; this section draws on Donna Haraway's interventions into debates about objectivity and Chandra Talpade Mohanty's critique of the colonial gaze in some Western feminist scholarship...

... requires a rethinking of Western melodrama theory that presumes melodrama has emerged during a “de-sacralized” or secular context, and it necessitates a new type of African video-film criticism that takes gender and the body as a point of departure. Furthermore, I argue that in order to understand how...

... productively deform Western conceptualizations of the aesthetic. In February 2011, Copeland interviewed Leonard about her practice and its implications for feminist approaches to vision, history, and the archive. Their conversation took place at the College Art Association annual conference in New York as part...

... on their methods, the essay envisages other resonances that such acting can have in thinking about freedom and constraint within the political and economic spheres of Western culture. Manuel Ramos-Martínez is a lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research...

... subjects, many of whom are children) first as manifestations of Emerson's and Heidegger's efforts to avoid the violence of Western thinking that they call “clutching” and “grasping” at the world, and then as instantiations of Bersani's notion of sociability as “a form of relationality uncontaminated...

... been depicted in Western film and television are born out of this queer re-reading. By revisiting Junior through this approach, zaniness—as conceptualized by Sianne Ngai—illustrates yet another division where queer modes of family-making reside—the binaristic formation of horror/humor...

... a by-now standard critique of objectifica- tion, essentialism, exoticization, and Orientalism as the representa- tional practices of modern Western imperialism. That is, an oppositional power relation between colonizer and colonized has come to be understood as a crucial dynamic at work...

.... The hope that this time, perhaps, their union will not result in bitterness and divorce has much to do with the picture-perfect island where they rekindle their romance. The love that could not endure in the Western metropolis finds a fresh start in Bali, with its unspoiled beaches, enchanting sunsets...

...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...

... an “authenticity complex” and often display this history in their referentiality to Hollywood pre- decessors.5 Thus the primary question is how to analyze these films as something beyond insufficient copies of Western films, espe- cially given the fact that Japanese films incorporated influences from Hollywood...

... of Beirut Laura U. Marks For Western scholars and artists, the phrase “women and video” brings to mind the heady days of feminist video production in North American (as well as European and Australian) cities in the early 1970s. Compared to film, the newly available medium was cheap...

... that follows, Trinh T. Minh-ha talks about her approach to documentary filmmaking as well as anthropological method in general, a method which, she claims, constructs an “other” in order to ensure both anthropology’s own status as a discipline and the dominance of a Western idea of identity (the all...

... that followed over a period of about one and a half years. As I pursued the work, certain interesting things became clear. First, with the exception of Julia Kristeva's utopian projections,' almost all Western work on Chinese women that I know is based in the empirical social sciences." This has provided...

... this seemed unpalatable to Westerners, to the japanese [Hara Setsuko] embodied the spir- itual tenacity which made it possible for japan to attain the economic level of the West. She reminds us of the suffering...

... a series of concentric rings and waves. Fictional Representation, the Woman’s Symbolic Position, Enunciation JB: Already in the collective book Le Western (1966), while other contributors chose elements like “Indian attack,” ‘Sheriffs office,” ‘‘fistfight,” “gambler,” or “ranch” to discuss...

... definitely letdowns, as evidenced by their reviews and box-office receipts. But critics agree that Tsui’s Hong Kong works and Chinese-language films have been instru- mental in generating the Western craze for Hong Kong cinema.3 Camera Obscura 63, Volume 21, Number 3 doi 10.1215/02705346-2006...

... love ourselves!” a 163 The absurdity of these affirmations, particularly when set against the impact of white, Western racism, internalized racism among blacks, and the historical and cultural appropriation of black identity (e.g...

... a familiar Western narrative that associates dynamism, change, and agency with movement, without questioning the gen­ dered assumptions that underpin this narrative. A problematic view of reproduction as passive remains unquestioned in these accounts, thus reinstating a binary opposition between...