Author: Nancy Leys Stepan
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Keywords: picturing, history, books, nature, tropical, reaktion
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-02-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1861891466
ISBN-13: 9781861891464
Whether considered a sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or the endangered site of environmental conflicts, the tropics are, Picturing Tropical Nature argues, largely a construct of American and European imaginations. Nancy Leys Stephan asserts that images of the tropics conveyed through drawings, paintings, photographs, literature, and travel writings are central to what Stepan calls the “tropicalization of nature,” or the often harmful misrepresentation of the tropics and its peoples. She here examines several aspects of such tropicalization as they emerge through the work of ninet
Author: Ann Ulanov
Publisher: Daimon Verlag
Keywords: god, picturing
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 3856306161
ISBN-13: 9783856306168
Picturing God demonstrates the importance of confronting our unconscious selves and allowing our images of God – both positive and negative – to surface. Such inner exploration reveals not only relevant insights about ourselves, but also pulls us beyond our private pictures of God toward a truer view of the living God. Picturing God shows us how to explore our unconscious selves and how this spiritual exercise can change the whole of our lives: how we respond to God, how we relate to others, and how we view ourselves.
Author: Leo G. Mazow
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: banjo, picturing
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 027102710X
ISBN-13: 9780271027104
The history of the banjo is as haunting as its music. Made popular in minstrel shows of the nineteenth century, the "banjar" derives from the stringed gourd instrument African slaves brought with them to plantations in the Caribbean and American South. From minstrelsy to the folk music revival of the twentieth century, the banjo has continued to attract audiences and acquire meaning. Picturing the Banjo gives this long history an entirely new dimension by tracing the instrumentÂ’s representation in American visual culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Published in conjunction
Author: Linda Chase
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: vegas, las, picturing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1423604881
ISBN-13: 9781423604884
Through colorful photogra phs and firsthand narrative detail, Picturing Las Vegas tells the story of a city whose history mirrors that of America itself: a tale of the frontier, of corruption and greed, of beauty and loss and ineffable hope. From its hardscrabble origins, to the Golden Age of the Rat Pack, to today’s mind-blowing theme-park casinos, Las Vegas is the city that has it all. Mobsters. Mormons. Elvis and Wayne Newton, Siegfried and Roy. It’s a place where change is the one constant, and where the pursuit of happiness is the only law. In the words of writer Chu
Author: Darrell William Davis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: japaneseness, picturing
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1995-04-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0231102313
ISBN-13: 9780231102315
Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan’s encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, Kagemusha, and Ran.
Author: Linda Haverty Rugg
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: autobiography, photography, ourselves, picturing
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 1997-12-08
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0226731464
ISBN-13: 9780226731469
Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convincingly shows, photography’s double take on self-image mirrors the concerns of autobiographers, who see the self as simultaneously divided (in observing/being) and unified by the autobiographical act. Rugg tracks photography’s impact on the formation of self-image through the study of four literary autobiographers concerned with the tran
Author: Jay Ruby
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: anthropology, film, explorations, culture, picturing
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2000-08-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226730999
ISBN-13: 9780226730998
Here, Jay Ruby—a founder of visual anthropology—distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conviction that the ideal of an anthropological cinema has not even remotely begun to be realized, Ruby argues that ethnographic filmmakers should generate a set of critical standards analogous to those for written ethnographies. Cinematic artistry and the desire to entertain, he argues, can eclipse the original intention, which is to provide an anthropological representation of the subjects.The book begins with analyses of key filmmakers (Robert F
