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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Visuality"”.
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Literary urbanism, visuality and modernity
Literary Urbanism and the Symbolist Aesthetic argues that the modern city influences urban writers to develop particular literary-visual practices that translate urban experience into poetry and prose. Chapter one considers how urban planning in Paris during the Second Empire inspired Charles …
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Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality
… aesthetics in addition to broader aspects of her visuality, including her treatment of the “vividly visual” dream-state to the distinct ocularcentricity of her writing. Ultimately, this thesis seeks to advance our knowledge of Bowen’s visual method and to offer a new approach in which to nuance …
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Seeing the Screen: A History of Electrified Visuality
… to explicating its impact on visual culture and visuality from the nineteenth century to the present. The work argues that in its electrification, the screen has engendered its own distinctive forms of seeing and imagery. The emissive nature of this medium first emerged as instrumentation for …
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Prosuming visuality, authenticity and urban exploration within tourist experiences
… visited. The work considers authenticity and visuality as components of the dissatisfaction with modern tourism, and the experiences it offers, I argue that this dissatisfaction is driving tourists to understand, engage with and experience tourist sites in new ways, seeking liminality and …
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Visuality and the transnational urban space: Koreatown, Los Angeles
… of Koreatown in Los Angeles, I examine how visuality and countervisuality influence the transnational urban space of Koreatown, Los Angeles. Based on Nicholas Mirzoeff’s (2011) concepts of visuality and countervisuality, and by incorporating perspectives of globalization, specifically …
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Projecting the uncanny : the intersection of visuality and architecture
This thesis explores architectural drawings and representations appropriate to describe forms and spaces in zero and artificial gravity. Its focus is on the physical forces associated with life and motion in a rotating environment and the formal and geometric architectural response to those forces. …
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Picturing the unspeakable: Trauma, memory, and visuality in contemporary comics
… graphic narratives, as well as the centrality of visuality—that is, how we see and how we understand what we see—in trauma studies. Moving away from a model of literary trauma studies that focuses on “the unspeakable,” this dissertation proposes that we look instead at the intersections of the …
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The politics of visuality in Beloved and The Colour Purple
… in visual relations. I examine the ways in which visuality extends the efficacy of Morrison and Walker's fictional project, by contributing to a narrative form which privileges the interior life of its characters. Through their story-making process, the novels of my study offer the opportunity …
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Out of Sight: Exploring Desire, Visuality and the Obscene through Photographic Practice
… framework considers the construction of visuality in the context of architectural and social spaces (hospitals, schools, asylums and prisons); spaces that condition how we look and determine what can be seen through relations of power (Rajchman, 1988). I claim that photographic …
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Visualized gender and gendered visuality: Love, marriage, and labor in contemporary Chinese women’s visual culture
Feminism was long sidelined as a bourgeois ideology in Communist China and has never fully recovered as the leading apparatus for female empowerment. Chinese women have made tremendous progress under the leadership of the Communist Party, but at the same time faced unprecedented challenges in …
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The politics of aesthetics and performance: Visuality and the remaking of culture in the Calabar Festival and Carnival, 2004 -2019
The Calabar Festival and Carnival was inaugurated in 2004. Aspects of Calabar cultural festivals had been appropriated into Caribbean carnivals and were performed from around the second half of the 18th century, particularly in the Trinidadian carnival. In 2004, it returned to Africa and was remade …
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Urban Hospice: A Montage of Expiration and Memory
Architecture is visuality. Its object is what Norman Bryson has referred to as a screen of signs. "Between subject and the world is inserted the entire sum of discourses which make up visuality, that cultural construct, and make visuality different from vision, the notion of unmediated visual …
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Nothing to See Here: Generative AI, Neoliberal Crisis, and Intensified Counterinsurgency
… management. Anchored by Mirzoeff’s genealogy of Visuality—defined as the ‘visualization’ of the social in ways that separate subjects and authorize centralized control—the dissertation’s narrative is organized into three parts. The first develops a historico-genealogical account of media, …
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Photography as the Aesthetic Determination of Difference
… problem of language. this thesis suggests that visuality - understood as fragmentary and recursive selfreplication – is nothing other than photography's pull away from representation and pointing to the way difference, as multiplicity of open-ended possibilities, could be approached as the …
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Prison Sights: Carceral Counter-Visions in Documentary Film
… dissertation examines the shared politics of visuality that govern American domestic civilian and foreign military prisons. Though scholars have pointed to the interlocking systems of power that govern both spaces, this visuality renders them as fundamentally distinct in the public …
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Heinrich Wölfflin's ideas and historiographical discourse
… (Karperlichkeit, Karperhaftigkeit) and visuality (Sichtbarkeit, Anschauung) within the cultural transition between the fields of historicism and modernity/modernism. Through the impact of photographic reproductions he demarcated an analytical typology of architectural form and spatial …
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Color, Line, and Narrative: Visual Art Techniques in Lev Tolstoy’s Fiction
… “Lucerne.” I then trace the shifts in Tolstoy’s visuality toward what I term his “draughtsmanly” aesthetic. This later visuality, which culminates in the 1899 novel Resurrection, features many aspects of temporal literature, such as increased reliance on plot progression, as well as a …
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Of Space and Time: Film and the Female Performer
… My practice draws on the concept of haptic visuality in order to explore an embodied immersive filmmaking. The films explore the notion of a feminine image as a form of subversion of the dominant phallocentric discourse, proposing alternative modes of visualities. The thesis examines …
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Contingencies : visualizing tensions between contemporary critical theory and Canadian art practice
… of thought relative to the problem of vision and visuality. As a terrain of enquiry whose key words emerge in this account as representation, reception, and identity politics, vision and visuality (here called visualism) in the literature refers to four things: a critical standpoint, a rejection …
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Barbielândia e suas cores: uma análise semiótica do filme de Greta Gerwig
… The research allows us to conclude that the visuality of Barbielândia expresses a polarized world between female and male, marked by the dichotomy of pink and blue.
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