Sites Of The Uncanny
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Shadow Sites
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Author : Kitty Hauser
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-03-29
Shadow Sites written by Kitty Hauser and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-29 with History categories.
At certain times of the day - at sunrise, and sunset - the outlines of prehistoric fields, barrows and hill-forts in the British landscape may be thrown into relief. Such 'shadow sites', best seen from above, and captured by an airborne camera, are both examples of, and metaphors for, a particular way of seeing the landscape. At a time of rapid modernisation and urbanisation in mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Shell guide books, to photographs of bomb damage, aerial archaeology, and The Wizard of Oz, Kitty Hauser delves into evocative interpretations of the landscape and looks at the affinities between photography as a medium to capture traces of the past as well as their absence.
The Political Afterlife Of Sites Of Monumental Destruction
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Author : Andrea Connor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-06-14
The Political Afterlife Of Sites Of Monumental Destruction written by Andrea Connor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-14 with Political Science categories.
What happens when a monumental thing is physically destroyed? Is its "life" as a socially significant, presencing thing at an end? Or might the process of destruction work to enhance its symbolic force, mediating work and presencing power? In this book Andrea Connor traces the ‘afterlife’ of two exemplary examples of monumental destruction and their re-investment with cultural value and symbolic significance. In 1993, during the Bosnian war, the Mostar Bridge was completely destroyed. Reconstructed in 2004, as an exact copy of the original, this "new Old Bridge" has assumed an afterlife as an intentional monument to reconciliation. The World Trade Centre, in New York, has also been transformed since its destruction in 2001, as a place of national mourning and remembrance, a symbolic void marking a singular act of terrorism. Using recent work on affect and object agency Connor considers their contested reconfiguration as sites of collective remembering and forgetting in new highly charged political contexts. She argues for a more expansive notion of reconstruction – encompassing not only the material and symbolic afterlife of both things but also their affecting afterlives as they are re-assembled in the present. Provoking a reconsideration of the way monuments and heritage sites, even in their absence, become powerful agents of historical narrativization, this work will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields including international relations, cultural studies, critical heritage studies, and material culture studies.
Sites
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Sites written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Architecture categories.
Profane Illumination
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Author : Margaret Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1995-03-06
Profane Illumination written by Margaret Cohen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-06 with Art categories.
Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Benjamin's post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. She argues that Breton's surrealist Marxism played a formative role in shaping postwar French intellectual life and is of continued relevance to the contemporary intellectual scene.
Sacred Mobilities
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Author : Avril Maddrell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
Sacred Mobilities written by Avril Maddrell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Social Science categories.
This collection draws on the Mobilities approach to look afresh at notions of the sacred where they intersect with people, objects and other things on the move. Consideration of a wide range of spiritual meanings and practices also sheds light on the motivations and experiences associated with particular mobilities. Drawing on rich, situated case studies, this multi-disciplinary collection discusses what mobility in the social sciences, arts and humanities can tell us about movements and journeys prompted by religious, more broadly ’spiritual’ and 'secular-sacred' practices and priorities. Problematizing the fixity of sacred places and times as territorially and temporally bounded entities that exist in opposition to ’profane’ everyday life, this collection looks at the intersection between the embodied-emotional-spiritual experience of places, travel, belief-practices and communities. It is this geographically-informed perspective on the interleaving of religious/ spiritual/ secular notions of the sacred with the material and more-than-representational attributes of associated mobilities and related practices which constitutes this volume’s original contribution to the field.
The City In Transgression
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Author : Benedict Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-27
The City In Transgression written by Benedict Anderson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-27 with Architecture categories.
The City in Transgression explores the unacknowledged, neglected, and ill-defined spaces of the built environment and their transition into places of resistance and residence by refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, the homeless, and the disadvantaged. The book draws on urban and spatial theory, socio-economic factors, public space, and architecture to offer an intimate look at how urban sites and infrastructure are transformed into spaces for occupation. Anderson proposes that the varied innovations and adaptations of urban spaces enacted by such marginalized figures – for whom there are no other options – herald a radical new spatial programming of cities. The book explores cities and sites such as Mexico City and London, the Mexican/US border, the Calais Jungle, and Palestinian camps in Beirut and utilizes concepts associated with ‘mobility’ – such as anarchy, vagrancy, and transgression – alongside photography, 3D modelling, and 2D imagery. From this constellation of materials and analysis, a radical spatial picture of the city in transgression emerges. By focusing on the ‘underside of urbanism’, The City in Transgression reveals the potential for new spatial networks that can cultivate the potential for self-organization so as to counter the existing dominant urban models of capital and property and to confront some of the major issues facing cities amid an age of global human mobility. This book is valuable reading for those interested in architectural theory, modern history, human geography and mobility, climate change, urban design, and transformation.
The Cinema Of James Wan
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Author : Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-01-14
The Cinema Of James Wan written by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-14 with Performing Arts categories.
An auteur and the creator of multiple cinematic universes, James Wan has become one of the most successful directors in history, his films breaking box office records worldwide. Yet there is little scholarship on Wan's work. This collection of new essays fills the gap with contributions from around the globe offering analysis of his film and television productions, including Saw (2004), Aquaman (2018) and The Conjuring Universe franchise, along with less well-known works like Death Sentence (2007), Dead Silence (2007) and his pilot for the new MacGyver series. For the first time, Wan's films are explored in-depth from wide range of critical perspectives.
Landscape Narratives
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Author : Matthew Potteiger
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1998-03-20
Landscape Narratives written by Matthew Potteiger and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-20 with Architecture categories.
This text covers the most popular types of landscapes designed today, from garden and park design, historic preservation and restoration, to community and regional planning.
Gender Meets Genre In Postwar Cinemas
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Author : Christine Gledhill
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2012-01-15
Gender Meets Genre In Postwar Cinemas written by Christine Gledhill and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-15 with Performing Arts categories.
This remarkable collection uses genre as a fresh way to analyze the issues of gender representation in film theory, film production, spectatorship, and the contexts of reception. With a uniquely global perspective, these essays examine the intersection of gender and genre in not only Hollywood films but also in independent, European, Indian, and Hong Kong cinemas. Working in the area of postcolonial cinema, contributors raise issues dealing with indigenous and global cinemas and argue that contemporary genres have shifted considerably as both notions of gender and forms of genre have changed. The volume addresses topics such as the history of feminist approaches to the study of genre in film, issues of female agency in postmodernity, changes taking place in supposedly male-dominated genres, concepts of genre and its use of gender in global cinema, and the relationship between gender and sexuality in film. Contributors are Ira Bhaskar, Steven Cohan, Luke Collins, Pam Cook, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Derek Kane-Meddock, E. Ann Kaplan, Samiha Matin, Katie Model, E. Deidre Pribram, Vicente Rodriguez Ortega, Adam Segal, Chris Straayer, Yvonne Tasker, Deborah Thomas, and Xiangyang Chen.
View From The Traveller Site
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Author : Anna Hoare
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-04-24
View From The Traveller Site written by Anna Hoare and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-24 with Social Science categories.
‘Traveller-specific’ architecture in Ireland and permanently ‘temporary’ sites in the UK embody an insoluble contradiction – as systems of control, policing and strategic neglect, and as a cultural right, an alternative to housing that recognizes the dignity of choice. View from the Traveller Site explores post-nomadism as an artefact of statecraft in which contradictory processes occur in tandem, legal insecurity persists, and state policies have unexpected consequences, as sites materialize the countervailing tendencies of post-war European states. At conjunctures of camps, courtrooms, sites and council houses, Irish Travellers generate new architectures and revive old ones. Architecture and the body form distributed fields of analogy and metaphor, and are reciprocally constituted as social capacities and sites of personhood and relations. Through ethnographic accounts of sites and camps, funerary monuments and gift cycles of mares and foals, the book reflects on material and performative architectures, negotiations of gendered and generational rights, and the role of women in encounters between the dead, the living and the unborn in camps. The author engages with debates in the anthropology of the state, property, citizenship and the family, and offers a new analysis of Travellers’ concepts of personhood and embodiment, as they negotiate the politics and poetics of citizenship, kinship and sociality, enfolding the ‘settled’ (non-Traveller) world of sites into the collective bodies of ‘breeds’ and ‘back-breeds’. This exploration of the productivity of post-nomadic architecture, culture and sociality will be of particular interest to scholars of anthropology, architecture and material and visual culture.