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Between the eye and the world : the emergence of the point-of-view shot
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ISBN: 9789052010359 9052010358 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bruxelles Bern Berlin [etc.] P.I.E. Peter Lang

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The point-of-view shot is usually perceived as a ±natural device, yet its naturalness is illusory. This book provides an answer to the question: ±Where does the point-of-view shot come from? It investigates the emergence of this filmic form as the product of a culture and its history, unravelling the difference between a point-of-view shot and a character's subjective viewpoint. In so doing, it shows that what would become the point of-view shot developed from the interposition, between the eye and the world, of a prosthesis capable of modifying the conditions needed to access the visible, and thus to expand the potential of human vision. Moreover, the book offers inspiration for further research on modern (and postmodern) vision as a mediated vision, an important topic in contemporary debates in the digital media landscape.


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An other kind of home : gender-sexual abjection, subjectivity, and the uncanny in literature and film
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ISBN: 9783631628379 Year: 2015 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : PL Academic Research,

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In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or belonging, and pressures of abjection. Other elements of identity include race and disease. The characters in the analyzed works encounter both mutual dependence and abhorrence, which complicate their experiences in space and time. This analysis demonstrates that acceptance and belonging are difficult to attain, particularly in the fraught power dynamics in these works. This book includes discussions of works by Frank Wedekind, Robert Musil, Kutluğ Ataman, and Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss.

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