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Author : Jacqueline Rose
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789605266
A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.
Author : Leslie Devereaux,Roger Hillman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520914704
Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Fields of Vision is a path-breaking collection that inquires into the power (and limits) of film and photography to make sense of ourselves and others. As critics, social scientists, filmmakers, and literary scholars, the contributors converge on the issues of representation and the construction of visual meaning across cultures. From the dismembered bodies of horror film to the exotic bodies of ethnographic film and the gorgeous bodies of romantic cinema, Fields of Vision moves through eras, genres, and societies. Always asking how images work to produce meaning, the essays address the way the "real" on film creates fantasy, news, as well as "science," and considers this problematic process as cultural boundaries are crossed. One essay discusses the effects of Hollywood's high-capital, world-wide commercial hegemony on local and non-Western cinemas, while another explores the response of indigenous people in central Australia to the forces of mass media and video. Other essays uncover the work of the unconscious in cinema, the shaping of "female spectatorship" by the "women's film" genre of the 1920s, and the effects of the personal and subjective in documentary films and the photographs of war reportage. In illuminating dark, elided, or wilfully neglected areas of representation, these essays uncover new fields of vision.
Author : Wright Morris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496202536
"Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work -which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves--Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have come to identify as those of the most serious literary art. His novel The Field of Vision brilliantly climaxes his most richly creative period. It is a work of permanent significance and relevance to those who cannot be content with less than a full effort to cope with the symbolic possibilities of the human condition at the present time."--John W. Aldridge
Author : Jason J. S. Barton,Michael Benatar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781592593552
A comprehensive survey on the use of bedside skills and perimetric devices to the test visual fields, and how to interpret the results. To develop the clinician's interpretative skills, the authors include a chapter on visual anatomy and an atlas of 100 real-life cases arranged in anatomic order from retina to striate cortex. By placing a brief clinical vignette with a visual field on one side of the page and a description of the field and its causal lesion on the opposite side, the reader will be able to learn interpretation in a simulated clinical setting. An additional quiz section of twenty randomly arranged visual fields provides readers with an opportunity to test their newly acquired skills.
Author : David B. Henson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Perimetry
ISBN : UOM:39015049610168
Visual Fields is an authoritative and well-referenced text on the theory and practice of visual field investigation.
Author : Garry Whannel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134938599
Fields in Vision offers a comprehensive and analytical study of the international phenomenon of television sports coverage. Garry Whannel considers the historical development of sport on television, the growth of sponsorship and the way that television and sponsorship have re-shaped sport in the context of the enterprise culture. Drawing on archival research, Whannel first charts the development of the BBC Outside Broadcast department, and the growing battle for dominance between BBC and ITV, showing how sponsorship and the rising power of sports agents began to transform sport - not only in the UK but across the world - in the 1960s. He goes on to examine the implications of this vast and escalating global network during the 1980s by analysing the central role that stars and narratives began to play in television sport, presenting case studies of major contests such as Coe versus Ovett and Decker versus Budd. His study also takes into account one of the more indirect, but no less significant results of international televised sport - the rise of popular fitness chic and the American monopoly of the workout boom of the 1980s. Fields in Vision explains the development of television sport by linking its economic transformation with the cultural forms through which it is represented, offering a study encompassing not simply the sports world, but our relationship with television and the media industries as a whole.
Author : Andrew Blake,Pushmeet Kohli,Carsten Rother
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262297448
State-of-the-art research on MRFs, successful MRF applications, and advanced topics for future study. This volume demonstrates the power of the Markov random field (MRF) in vision, treating the MRF both as a tool for modeling image data and, utilizing recently developed algorithms, as a means of making inferences about images. These inferences concern underlying image and scene structure as well as solutions to such problems as image reconstruction, image segmentation, 3D vision, and object labeling. It offers key findings and state-of-the-art research on both algorithms and applications. After an introduction to the fundamental concepts used in MRFs, the book reviews some of the main algorithms for performing inference with MRFs; presents successful applications of MRFs, including segmentation, super-resolution, and image restoration, along with a comparison of various optimization methods; discusses advanced algorithmic topics; addresses limitations of the strong locality assumptions in the MRFs discussed in earlier chapters; and showcases applications that use MRFs in more complex ways, as components in bigger systems or with multiterm energy functions. The book will be an essential guide to current research on these powerful mathematical tools.
Author : Kathryn E. Holland Braund,Charlotte M. Porter
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817355715
A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws. The book, based on his journey across the South, reflects a remarkable coming of age. In 1773, Bartram departed his family home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a British colonist; in 1777, he returned as a citizen of an emerging nation of the United States. The account of his journey, published in 1791, established a national benchmark for nature writing and remains a classic of American literature, scientific writing, and history. Brought up as a Quaker, Bartram portrayed nature through a poetic lens of experience as well as scientific observation, and his work provides a window on 18th-century southern landscapes. Particularly enlightening and appealing are Bartram’s detailed accounts of Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee peoples. The Bartram Trail Conference fosters Bartram scholarship through biennial conferences held along the route of his travels. This richly illustrated volume of essays, a selection from recent conferences, brings together scholarly contributions from history, archaeology, and botany. The authors discuss the political and personal context of his travels; species of interest to Bartram; Creek architecture; foodways in the 18th-century south, particularly those of Indian groups that Bartram encountered; rediscovery of a lost Bartram manuscript; new techniques for charting Bartram’s trail and imaging his collections; and a fine analysis of Bartram’s place in contemporary environmental issues.
Author : Jason J S Barton,Michael Benatar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1468497642
Author : David O. Harrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UOM:39015000783798
Author : Elliot B. Werner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Islands of the Pacific
ISBN : UOM:39015019871261
An introductory text on the interpretation of automated and manual visual fields. This text dicusses the history and principles of manual perimetry, details modern techniques of visual field testing and describes visual field changes resulting from ophthalmic diseases.
Author : Sir Thomas Longmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Ophthalmology
ISBN : HARVARD:HC4QD4
Author : Thomas George Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Eye
ISBN : OCLC:32851116
Author : Stephen Daniels
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 0745604501
Author : Ningli Wang,Xuyang Liu,Ning Fan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811325021
This book discusses more than one hundred patients in which visual pathway is involved, and focuses on the role of visual field examination in the diagnosis of these diseases. It also highlights the application of concepts from the new interdiscipline, integration medicine as well as molecular biology and genetics in the analysis of the diseases. In this book, the commonly (typically) noticed changes in the visual field of patients with visual pathway disorders are mainly described in the chapter one titled as “Visual Field-related Anatomy of Visual Pathway” and chapter two titled as “Interpretation of Visual Field Test”, while the majority of the cases presented with "atypical" changes in visual field. At this point, the changes in the visual field could function as either a key to understand the disease, or a question mark which confuses the diagnosis. However, the process of pushing aside a fog around the diagnosis step by step helps the readers to gradually disclose the essence of the disease.