... contemplative spectator middle class Indian cinema Kerala caste the Left References Cynic . 1953 . “Indian Cinema in 1952.” Mathrubhoomy Weekly , January 25 , 93 . Desai Manali . 2005 . “Indirect British Rule, State Formation, and Welfarism in Kerala, India, 1860–1957...

..., where contingent concerns could be negotiated outside the registers of locality and where a discerning, “contemplative spectator” could be assembled. The following two articles — by Nitya Vasudevan and Ratheesh Radhakrishnan — closely examine...

... myself, are reflected in the relation- ships and interactions between various characters. And I think we can assign two significant reasons to my appearance in Bara no soretsu. One reason is to suddenly draw the conscious mind of the spectator...

... Sunday Mainichi article ostensibly presents a discussion with eight photographers who produced some of the photos in the Main- ichi’s collection, it actually spends a great deal of time contemplating the nature of viewing such images...

...- ists,”2 they should be cherished as “unique in their ability to bring together action and contemplation, emotion and reason, body and soul . . . a figure like Angela of Foligno . . . subverts the very distinctions between action...

... at the lower left, which have been burned in for empha- sis during the printing process to contrast sharply with the more lightly exposed landscape and boats. It is not uncommon, of course, for a spectator to be depicted in a landscape...

... at a variety of positions 9:2 Fall 2001 334 levels including the extraction of biopower from spectators and the orga- nization of their desire. Clearly such a fundamental shift in the mode...

... intellectual par- ticipation from the filmmakers themselves.5 The gradual influx of digital know-­how, independent co-­operative efforts, and the escalating base of the urban cinephile spectator-­practitioner led to an expansion of such sensibili...

... time is not one but many: a time of decrepitude as allegorically contemplated and vivified through the lens of another. positions 9:2 Fall 2001 292 In both Rouge and Haplos, this allegorical contemplation of one...

... watches her husband stuff meat into their daughter’s mouth, reenacting his sexual violation of the young woman’s helpless body; a prostitute coos to the penis of a colonel who is contemplating participating in a military coup against...

... an ontological or factual realism when the spectator is confronted by computer-generated effects in the digital age. Although theme parks are not electronically constructed, the virtual effect can be similar (Manovich 1998 ). The use of new technology in the West Gate Prison Museum and the Independence Hall...

... from spectator to participant, I believe,isthecruxofwhatmadang-g˘uk practitionersseizedon;thistransition also captured the imagination of the most revolutionary drama movements of the twentieth century, from Bertolt Brecht’s concept...

... is no longer possible, and that emotion has become retrievable only in displaced, mediated, or ironic form; but still the spectator can perceive that the flesh feels not only physical urges to be fulfilled, but also some kind of emotion that demands...

... is left to contemplate what was omitted and why. The case of the and Ing K.’s last minute mounting are both telling, not only of strategic exhibi- tion practices, but also of the potential for affective engagements in art to unearth traumatic...

... of unimaginable magnitude because of the potential it has to “inflame the mainland.” My own intervention into the contemplation of this thorny issue comes by way of cultural, and primarily literary and cinematic, studies. Before...

... to perceive and contemplate the visual and sonic qualities of the place or landscape, the rise of this situation reveals “connections of a new type, which bring the emancipated senses into direct relation with time and thought” (1986: 17). The pure optical and sound situation of the time-image closely relates...

... is “unreal” and becomes “mere representation” or contemplation among people (NMz, 1:97 – 98). Instead of actively producing all aspects of their lives and fulfill- ing their needs accordingly, people’s desires have been forced by capitalism positions...

... Portable Cities series that uses fabric architecture to convey her impressions of world cities, to her latest “ecoengineering” projects that provide contemplative spaces for viewers to temporarily inhabit—delineate the career trajectory of an individual female artist establishing her position within...

... “China” an object of contemplation for spectators constructed as ordinary bourgeois consumers of contemporary state rhetoric about culture and for UNESCO WorldHeritagereviewcommittees,whomustdecidewhatdoesanddoesnot have...

..., hairstyle, and the lavish rooms and courtyards that they inhabit. They appear passive, which helps create a contemplative mood. The reading woman has turned away from her book and gazes distractedly at the floor, while the woman holding the cup looks absently into the distance. In fact, most figures...