Illustrations | |
Acknowledgements Quote | |
Introduction | |
Labyrinth | |
Section Introduction | |
'The Intertwining - Chiasm' | |
'Labyrinthine Complexities: The Ottoman Harem as seen by Western Orientalists' | |
'The Blind in the Early Christian World' | |
'Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages' | |
'The Light of Wangarr' | |
'Corpore Obscuro: Meditation on the Dead in Thailand' | |
'On Longing: The Grotesque' | |
'Lifting the Veil: Shared Culture Values of Control' | |
'Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike.' | |
Orderings | |
Section Introduction | |
'Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment' | |
'Scientific Seeing: Commodities, Curiosities, and Anthropological Object' | |
'Science, Sight and the Ordering of Colonial Societies' | |
'Gossip and the Creation of Cinematic Space' | |
'The Films of Fritz Lang' | |
'Viewer's View: Looking at Pictures' | |
'An Andean Cosmology' | |
'Witness of History: Student Photography and Reformasi Politics in Indonesia' | |
'The Naming of a Heroine' | |
Creating | |
Section Introduction | |
'Photography, Elegance and the Aesthetics of Citizenship' | |
'Akira Postmodernism and Resistance' | |
'Patriotism and Nationalism: The Face of Consensus: Mid-Twentieth Century and the Image of Jesus' | |
'The Illumination of Christ in the Kalahari' | |
'Quetzalcoatl's Mirror' | |
'Photography and the Sound of History' | |
'Sound Film - Worthy of the Name' | |
'Cinema and History: In Conversation with Youssef Ishaghpour.' | |
'Madonna's Revenge" | |
"A Fascist Theme Park" | |
Ruptures | |
Section Introduction | |
'The Railway Journey - Panoramic Travel' | |
'The Secret of Gas' | |
'Supermodernity: From Places to Non-Placed' | |
'Camille Pissaro: The Unassuming Eye' | |
'The Wicked Queen: Marie-Antoinette' | |
'Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan and Iconoclasm' | |
'The Creation of a Tibetan Modernist: The Painting of Gonkar Gyantso' | |
'Extraordinary Vision and Two Sides of Cloth' | |
'The Spiritual History of Ice' | |
Extensions | |
Section Introduction | |
'The Eye of the Storm: Visual Perception and the Weather' | |
'Basnjom and the Witches' | |
'The Cultural reception of Early Russian Cinema' | |
'Haptic Cinema' | |
'Chris Marker: Memories of the Future' | |
'What Do Pictures Want Now? Rural Consumers of Images in India' | |
'Surgical Vision and Digital Culture' | |
'In the Service of Ben Comun: Visions of Good and Bad Government in Siena' | |
'Intimate Immensity'Final Quote | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Contributors | |
Copyright acknowledgements | |
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