Face On

Author : Sharrona Pearl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780226461533

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Face/On by Sharrona Pearl Pdf

Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever—or replaced? In Face/On, Sharrona Pearl investigates the stakes for changing the face–and the changing stakes for the face—in both contemporary society and the sciences. The first comprehensive cultural study of face transplant surgery, Face/On reveals our true relationships to faces and facelessness, explains the significance we place on facial manipulation, and decodes how we understand loss, reconstruction, and transplantation of the face. To achieve this, Pearl draws on a vast array of sources: bioethical and medical reports, newspaper and television coverage, performances by pop culture icons, hospital records, personal interviews, films, and military files. She argues that we are on the cusp of a new ethics, in an opportune moment for reframing essentialist ideas about appearance in favor of a more expansive form of interpersonal interaction. Accessibly written and respectfully illustrated, Face/On offers a new perspective on face transplant surgery as a way to consider the self and its representation as constantly present and evolving. Highly interdisciplinary, this study will appeal to anyone wishing to know more about critical interventions into recent medicine, makeover culture, and the beauty industry.

Author : Noa Steimatsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199863167

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The Face on Film by Noa Steimatsky Pdf

The human face was said to be rediscovered with the advent of motion pictures, in which it is often viewed as expressive locus, as figure, and even as essence of the cinema. But how has the modern, technological, mass- circulating art revealed the face in ways that are also distinct from any other medium? How has it altered our perception of this quintessential incarnation of the person? The archaic powers of masks and icons, the fashioning of the individual in the humanist portrait, the modernist anxieties of fragmentation and de-figuration-these are among the cultural precedents informing our experience in the movie theatre. Yet the moving image also offers radical new confrontations with the face: Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, Donen's Funny Face, Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, Bresson's enigmatic Au hasard Balthazar, Antonioni's Screen Test, Warhol's filmic portraits of celebrity and anonymity are among the key works explored in this book. In different ways these intense encounters manifest a desire for transparency and plenitude, but-especially in post-classical cinema-they also betray a profound ambiguity that haunts the human countenance as it wavers between image and language, between what we see and what we know. The spectacular impact of the cinematic face is uncannily bound up with an opacity, a reticence. But is it not for this very reason that, like faces in the world, it still enthralls us?

Author : Cameron McCabe
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509829828

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The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe Pdf

With an introduction by Jonathan Coe 1930s King's Cross, London. When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film studio, Cameron McCabe finds himself at the centre of a police investigation. There are multiple suspects, multiple confessors and, as more people around him die, McCabe begins to perform his own amateur sleuth-work, followed doggedly by the mysterious Inspector Smith. But then, abruptly, McCabe's account ends . . . Who is Cameron McCabe? Is he victim? Murderer? Novelist? Joker? And if not McCabe, who is the author of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor?

Author : Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher : Ember
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385742382

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The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney Pdf

In the vein of psychological thrillers like We Were Liars and One of Us Is Lying, bestselling and Edgar Award nominated author Caroline Cooney’s JANIE series seamlessly blends mystery and suspense with issues of family, friendship and love to offer an emotionally evocative thrill ride of a read. No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar—a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey—she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl—it was she. How could it possibly be true? Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as she begins to piece things together, nothing makes sense. Something is terribly wrong. Are Mr. and Mrs. Johnson really her parents? And if not, who is Janie Johnson, and what really happened?

Author : Timothy Silver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521387396

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A New Face on the Countryside by Timothy Silver Pdf

Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how three cultures interacted with their changing environment.

Author : Tim J. Kelly
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Central City (Colo.)
ISBN : 0573614571

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The Face on the Barroom Floor, Or, Glimpsed Through the Sawdust by Tim J. Kelly Pdf

Author : Therese Davis
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Death in motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114965853

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The Face on the Screen by Therese Davis Pdf

There was a time in screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image... The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the endless 'talking heads' of television and the ever-changing array of film stars' faces have reduced the face to a banal image, while the dream of early film theorists that the 'giant severed heads' of the screen could reveal 'the soul of man' to the masses is long since dead. And yet the end of this dream opens up the possibility for a different view of the face on the screen. The aim of the book is to seize this opportunity to rethink the facial close-up in terms other than subjectivity and identity by shifting the focus to questions of death and recognition. In doing so, the book proposes a dialectical reversal or about-face. It suggests that we focus our attention on the places in contemporary media where the face becomes unrecognisable, for it is here that the facial close-up expresses the powers of death. Using Walter Benjamin's theory of the dialectical image as a critical tool, the book provides detailed studies of a wide range of media spectacles of faces becoming unrecognisable. It shows how the mode of recognition enabled by these faces is a shock experience that can open our eyes to the underside of the mask of self - the unrecognisable mortal face of self we spend our lives trying not to see. Turning on itself, so to speak, the face exposes the fragile relationship between social recognition and facial recognizability in the images-cultures of contemporary media.

Author : Sharrona Pearl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780226461366

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Face/On by Sharrona Pearl Pdf

Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever—or replaced? In Face/On, Sharrona Pearl investigates the stakes for changing the face–and the changing stakes for the face—in both contemporary society and the sciences. The first comprehensive cultural study of face transplant surgery, Face/On reveals our true relationships to faces and facelessness, explains the significance we place on facial manipulation, and decodes how we understand loss, reconstruction, and transplantation of the face. To achieve this, Pearl draws on a vast array of sources: bioethical and medical reports, newspaper and television coverage, performances by pop culture icons, hospital records, personal interviews, films, and military files. She argues that we are on the cusp of a new ethics, in an opportune moment for reframing essentialist ideas about appearance in favor of a more expansive form of interpersonal interaction. Accessibly written and respectfully illustrated, Face/On offers a new perspective on face transplant surgery as a way to consider the self and its representation as constantly present and evolving. Highly interdisciplinary, this study will appeal to anyone wishing to know more about critical interventions into recent medicine, makeover culture, and the beauty industry.

Author : Flora Annie Webster Steel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015002646134

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On the Face of the Waters by Flora Annie Webster Steel Pdf

Author : Noa Steimatsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190650353

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The Face on Film by Noa Steimatsky Pdf

The human face was said to be rediscovered with the advent of motion pictures, in which it is often viewed as expressive locus, as figure, and even as essence of the cinema. But how has the modern, technological, mass-circulating art revealed the face in ways that are also distinct from any other medium? How has it altered our perception of this quintessential incarnation of the person? The archaic powers of masks and icons, the fashioning of the individual in the humanist portrait, the modernist anxieties of fragmentation and de-figuration--these are among the cultural precedents informing our experience in the movie theatre. Yet the moving image also offers radical new confrontations with the face: Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, Donen's Funny Face, Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, Bresson's enigmatic Au hasard Balthazar, Antonioni's Screen Test, Warhol's filmic portraits of celebrity and anonymity are among the key works explored in this book. In different ways these intense encounters manifest a desire for transparency and plenitude, but--especially in post-classical cinema--they also betray a profound ambiguity that haunts the human countenance as it wavers between image and language, between what we see and what we know. The spectacular impact of the cinematic face is uncannily bound up with an opacity, a reticence. But is it not for this very reason that, like faces in the world, it still enthralls us?

Author : Meyer Michael Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0195300408

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Perspectives on the Face by Meyer Michael Cohen Pdf

"This book explores the face from a number of perspectives: evolutionary, embryonic, developmental, postnatal, anatomic, physiologic, dysmorphic, genetic, surgical psychosocial, sociocultural, symbolic, and artistic. These are diverse fields, yet they are brought together here to help form an integrated understanding and appreciation of this fascinating subject. Like images seen in a kaleidoscope, faces are infinitely complex and beautiful. They are woven into our daily lives, our dreams, and our memories."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Laura Cumming
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007391943

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A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits by Laura Cumming Pdf

Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history.

Author : Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Hot-water heating
ISBN : WISC:89088904552

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American Steam and Hot-water Heating Practice by Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : UFL:31262098803132

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Belgravia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Langton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453247624

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The Face on the Wall by Jane Langton Pdf

Scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly comes to the aid of his artist niece, who’s implicated in a death, in this “taut, suspenseful, and absorbing” whodunit (Kirkus Reviews). Life has not always been fair to Annie Swann. A bad marriage sullied her youth, but since her divorce she has made enough money illustrating children’s books to add a wing to her house. The new addition’s focal point will be a thirty-five-foot blank wall, where Annie plans an elaborate mural of the fairy tale characters who pay her bills. But as she paints, mysterious markings appear on the mural: first splotches, then a woman’s face, ringed with blond hair and covered in blood. It seems to point to the disappearance of Pearl Small, a Harvard student who took classes from Annie’s aunt Mary. As Mary and her husband, professor and ex-cop Homer Kelly, look for Pearl, Annie continues painting, unaware that with each brushstroke, she marks her wall with another layer of evil.