... Press. Issari , Mohammad Ali . 1989 Cinema in Iran, 1900–1979 . Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. Kaplan , E. Ann . 1983 Is the Gaze Male? in Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera . New York: Methuen. Mahmudi , Abbasali . 1981 Zan dar Eslam . Tehran: Nehzat-e Zanan-e...

...Ella Shohat Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Cultural Studies 1991 Imaging Terra Incognita: The Disciplinary Gaze of Empire THE GENEALOGY OF CINEMA The beginnings of the cinema, as is well known, coincided with the height of imperialism. From...

.... PHOTO-ESSAY The Blocked Gaze: A User’s Guide to Photographing the Separation Barrier-Wall Meir Wigoder Pointing the camera at the Israeli Separation Barrier-Wall involves a fundamental...

... in a workplace. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 8 : 531 -55. Am I the Only Survivor? Global Capital, Local Gaze, and Social Trauma in China Pun Ngai I don’t know how I...

...Beatriz Jaguaribe This essay discusses the impact of realist aesthetics as a “pedagogy of the gaze” that addresses the pressing issues of urban violence in Brazil. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 I thank Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar for suggesting the title of this essay...

... time these systems, ultimately, are vulnerable to outside interception—opening them to a partial reversal of the surveillant gaze. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke Universityc Press 2022 surveillance capitalism social reproduction counterterrorism Uyghur China Sometime...

... of the gaze allows us to glean signs of becoming, modes of making visible imagined modernities and communities. Despite their disparity, these sets of images organize temporal experiences in specific fashions. In the carte de visite , the testimony of continuity and of succeeding generations attests to a past...

... across the globe, especially in spaces that are seemingly inaccessible to rights advocates. In this essay, I explore human rights satellite imaging as an extension of a surveillance gaze that emerged and developed in the context of a politics of securitization. In so doing, I suggest that satellite...

... in computer files that are accessed by police, army patrols, and road block units. An informant (male, thirty-two, Catholic), who lived in Divis Flats housing project, which lies under the gaze of British Army video cameras mounted on an adjacent high-rise building, declared: “They know the patterns...

... the work of the gaze of capital — a gaze that is preoccupied with ruins, destruc- tion, and debris as clues and as evidence of space yet to come. This gaze has increasingly come to signify the venture of contemporary capital in the era...

... in a scene reso- nant with unplumbed meaning. Its charged particularity records the trajectory of an idée fixe in search of its material trace. Yet because it holds the gaze in desire’s search for its object, the image presents the viewer...

..., central to modern urban homosexual congress. As Lee Edelman puts it, “homosexuality, as constructed in the modern West, occupies a distinctive relation to questions of the gaze and of visual perception.”7 Edelman is inter- ested in tracking...

... of plurality might be opened where the spectator feels called to take part in “new conditions for moral action” ( Azoulay 2008 : 144). This call is not abstract; indeed, contemporary visual culture around human rights takes what Ariella Azoulay (2008 : 287) calls the “active gaze” quite seriously. This gaze...

... to all the world that such things were of no use whatever”) but by turning it into “music”-not unlike Horkheimer and Adorno’s Ulysses. He hears the Sirens with his eyes and in so doing distances their voice with his gaze: “For a fleeting moment he saw their throats rising and falling, their breasts...

... they are veiled, that makes them emerge so uncannily in a time and place not their own—familiar and yet not quite right? Touring the exhibition, one little notices the gazes—one animate, one inanimate—of a woman weaving and a Kurdish mannequin, as the real becomes object and the object real. Iran Gardi is popu...

.... Images do not petrify us, like Medusa’s gaze; on the contrary, we traffic in them fluently, using tracking devices to map their movements, search engines to locate, select, and retrieve them, and mod- ules to file, store, and manipulate them. We have multiple strategies, both cog- nitive (“mapping...

...), which began with the airplane and culminated in the astronaut’s and satellite’s gaze. In contrast to the limited human vision of the astronaut, “satellite eyes are omnipresent and omniscient” ( Sachs 1999 : 115), producing what Peter Sloterdijk describes in the epigraph above as an “inverted astronomy...

... stability. The conqueror becomes the conquered. The frontal shot of Jiuer is held still correlating the stupefied daze/gaze of the spiritually daunted and overwhelmed kidnapper. The reverse shot of the man (which is Jiuer's point of view) allows the camera the leisure and ease of tilting down...

... of materiality itself as the observing professional gaze that classified and evaluated bodies within hierarchies of deviance. In response to the rising prominence of such medical disciplines as pathology and teratology in particular, theorists...

... continuity of skull and bare torso becomes suddenly lascivious, at least rakish, especially in the post-bath shot in which the body is majestically flung in the wheelchair, the towel serving as flourish more than fig leaf. Tabata invites our gaze...