Screens And Veils

Author : Florence Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253005656

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Screens and Veils by Florence Martin Pdf

An analysis of seven films by female directors from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of “transvergence” to examine how Maghrebi women’s cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose. “Produced by a diverse group of women filmmakers—Assia Djebar, Farida Benlyazid, Yamina Bachir-Chouikh, Raja Amari, Naida El Fani, Yasmine Kassari, and Selma Baccar—these movies reflect the Algerian civil war, colonialism, patriarchy, undocumented immigrants, sexuality, identity, and the social mores that have dominated the political, social, and economic spheres in the Maghreb. . . . This book inscribes a new chapter in women filmmaking on the Maghreb; it makes an important contribution to cinema, literature, and cultural studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” —Choice “An excellent presentation and analysis of women’s filmmaking from North Africa. . . . Its attention to contemporary film theory is matched by its presentation of materials derived from Martin’s interviews with filmmakers, interviews that reveal a sincere engagement with the filmmakers and a deep understanding of contemporary production. In short, this is a fine book that will be of interest to anyone working on or teaching film and gender studies in North African and Middle Eastern studies, and beyond.” —Journal of Arabic Literature, Issue 44, 2013

Author : Florence Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253223418

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Screens and Veils by Florence Martin Pdf

Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of "transvergence" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose.

Author : Mauro Carbone,Graziano Lingua
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031308161

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Toward an Anthropology of Screens by Mauro Carbone,Graziano Lingua Pdf

This book shows that screens don’t just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physical and anthropological-cultural environment. By combining a series of historical-genealogical reconstructions going back to prehistoric times with the analysis of present and near-future technologies, the authors show that screens have always incorporated not only the hiding/showing functions but also the protecting/exposing ones, as the Covid-19 pandemic retaught us. The intertwining of these functions allows the authors to criticize the mainstream ideas of images as inseparable from screens, of words as opposed to images, and of what they call “Transparency 2.0” ideology, which currently dominates our socio-political life. Moreover, they show how wearable technologies don’t approximate us to a presumed disappearance of screens but seem to draw a circular pathway back to using our bodies as screens. This raises new relational, ethical, and political questions, which this book helps to illuminate.

Author : Kaya Davies Hayon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501336003

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Sensuous Cinema by Kaya Davies Hayon Pdf

Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film examines a cluster of recent films that feature Maghrebi(-French) people and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, France and, to a lesser degree, Switzerland, and often adopt a sensual aesthetic that prioritizes embodied knowledge, the interrelation of the senses and the material realities of emotional experience. However, despite the importance of the body in these films, no study to date has taken corporeality as its primary point of concern. This new addition to the Thinking Cinema series interweaves corporeal phenomenology with theological and feminist scholarship on the body from the Maghreb and the Middle East to examine how Maghrebi(-French) people of different genders, ethnicities, sexualities, ages and classes have been represented corporeally in contemporary Maghrebi and French cinemas. Via detailed textual and phenomenological analyses of films such as Red Satin (Amari 2002), Exiles (Gatlif 2004), Couscous (Kechiche 2007) and Salvation Army (Taïa 2014), Kaya Hayon Davies conveys the pivotal role that corporeality plays in articulating identity and the emotions in these films.

Author : Didem Ekici,Patricia Blessing,Basile Baudez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000900446

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Textile in Architecture by Didem Ekici,Patricia Blessing,Basile Baudez Pdf

This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts. Among the oldest human technologies, building and weaving have intertwined histories. Textile structures go back to Palaeolithic times and are still in use today and textile furnishings have long been used in interiors. Beyond its use as a material, textile has offered a captivating model and metaphor for architecture through its ability to enclose, tie together, weave, communicate, and adorn. Recently, architects have shown a renewed interest in the textile medium due to the use of computer-aided design, digital fabrication, and innovative materials and engineering. The essays edited and compiled here, work across disciplines to provide new insights into the enduring relationship between textiles and architecture. The contributors critically explore the spatial and material qualities of textiles as well as cultural and political significance of textile artifacts, patterns, and metaphors in architecture. Textile in Architecture is organized into three sections: “Ritual Spaces,” which examines the role of textiles in the formation and performance of socio-political, religious, and civic rituals; “Public and Private Interiors” explores how textiles transformed interiors corresponding to changing aesthetics, cultural values, and material practices; and “Materiality and Material Translations,” which considers textile as metaphor and model in the materiality of built environment. Including cases from Morocco, Samoa, France, India, the UK, Spain, the Ancient Andes and the Ottoman Empire, this is essential reading for any student or researcher interested in textiles in architecture through the ages.

Author : Susan Yelavich,Barbara Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781472574725

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Design as Future-Making by Susan Yelavich,Barbara Adams Pdf

Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to live in. Design as Future-Making locates design in a space of creative and critical reflection, examining the expanding nature of practice in fields such as biomedicine, sustainability, digital crafting, fashion, architecture, urbanism, and design activism. The authors contextualize design and its affects within issues of social justice, environmental health, political agency, education, and the right to pleasure and play. Collectively, they make the case that, as an integrated mode of thought and action, design is intrinsically social and deeply political.

Author : Bruce H. Sklarew
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814327001

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Bertolucci's The Last Emperor by Bruce H. Sklarew Pdf

In this anthology, filmmakers, psychoanalysts, film scholars, and cultural historians use a psychoanalytic approach to examine Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film The Last Emperor (I988). Evolving out of a conference on Bertolucci's work, the essays interweave psychological, political, and cinematic themes in The Last Emperor as well as in much of Bertolucci's other works. This volume includes a foreword by Bernardo Bertolucci and is organized into four parts or "takes," including "Filmcraft," "Psychoanalysis," "Film Scholarship," and "Cultural History." Although we can never fully know the real Aisingioro Pu Yi, Bertolucci used his vision of the intricate relationship between art, ideology, and the psychic experience to tell the story of one ordinary man's extraordinary life. Bertolucci's The Last Emperor hopes to illuminate this complex and often enigmatic creation as well as renew an excitement about the possibilities of interdisciplinary criticism in film studies.

Author : Michael I Rich
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-03
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : 9781387566310

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Business Plan: Beekeeping: Step-By-Step Guide: Transform Your "Hobby" Into A "Startup" - Beekeeping & Business Setup by Michael I Rich Pdf

New and Improved - 3rd Edition. Now packed with even more information!!! Raise Your Own Bees and Reap the Sweet Rewards! Do you love honey? Would you like to keep your own colonies of bees? Are you interested in pollinating flowers and trees? Do you want to make more money from your hobby? If so, this is the book you've been looking for. If you want to start a beekeeping business, "bee" sure to read this essential introduction to bees and beekeeping. This millennium-old practice can mean big profits for you From sourcing your bees to financing your beekeeping business, this book has the detailed and powerful information you need to make it big in the bee products industry! Don't wait another day to start getting paid for your hobby - Get Business Plan: Beekeeping right away! You'll be so glad you did! Enjoy Double Bonus inside - 2 additional books, absolutely FREE.

Author : Mohammad Amin Sheikho,A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783730996089

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Islam! What Are the Veil, Divorce, and Polygamy for? by Mohammad Amin Sheikho,A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani Pdf

In the same way the eater rush upon their bowl, all cultural circles in both East and West have rushed upon “the Islamites” criticizing and defaming. They accused us of encroachment upon woman’s right, so they rendered their unfair judgment which declares that we “the community of Moslems’ are enemies and tyrants of woman; nay, we are a nation that all other nations laughed at for its negligence and oppression, particularly in regard to the issues of “divorce” and “polygamy”. They also imputed that we have squeezed the woman into the bottle of Prophet Solomon and sealed it with his signet when we put on her face “a veil”, too stifling and heavy, and hid her out of sight. Therefore, our standing has declined and our class degraded, and in their view; we have become an illiberal nation whose humanity has sunk to the bottom. Now, it is the time for the truth to present itself strongly and to fill Westerners’ thoughts about Islam with sublimity. It is going to intonate glory as an ideal with pride and make the whole universe hear its humanist voice. Today, the truth has been justified by he whose faithfulness achieved marvels. It is his majesty: the great eminent scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho ‘his soul has been sanctifies by Al’lah. Indeed, whenever he is, the blessings will be.

Author : Joseph E. B. Lumbard
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438459653

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Ahmad al-Ghazali, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love by Joseph E. B. Lumbard Pdf

Discusses the work of a central, but poorly understood, figure in the development of Persian Sufism, A?mad al-Ghaz?l?. The teachings of A?mad al-Ghaz?l? changed the course of Persian Sufism forever, paving the way for luminaries such as R?m?, A???r, and ??fi?. Yet he remains a poorly understood thinker, with many treatises incorrectly attributed to him and conflicting accounts in the historiographical literature. This work provides the first examination of A?mad al-Ghaz?l? and his work in Western scholarly literature. Joseph E. B. Lumbard seeks to ascertain the authenticity of works attributed to this author, trace the development of the dominant trends in the biographical literature, and reconstruct the life and times of A?mad al-Ghaz?l? with particular attention to his relationship with his more famous brother, Ab? Hamid al-Ghaz?l?. Lumbard’s findings revolutionize our understanding of A?mad al-Ghaz?l?'s writings, allowing for focus on his central teachings regarding Divine Love and the remembrance of God.

Author : Mauro Carbone
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438474663

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Philosophy-Screens by Mauro Carbone Pdf

In The Flesh of Images, Mauro Carbone analyzed Merleau-Ponty's interest in film and modern painting as it relates to his aesthetic theory and as it illuminates our contemporary relationship to images. Philosophy-Screens broadens the work undertaken in this earlier book, looking at the ideas of other twentieth-century thinkers concerning the relationship between philosophy and film, and extending that analysis to address our experience of electronic and digital screens in the twenty-first century. In the first part of the book, Carbone examines the ways that Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Lyotard, and Deleuze grappled with the philosophical significance of cinema as a novel aesthetic medium unfolding in the twentieth century. He then considers the significance of this philosophical framework for understanding the digital revolution, in particular the extent to which we are increasingly and comprehensively connected with screens. Smartphones, tablets, and computers have become a primary referential optical apparatus for everyday life in ways that influence the experience not only of seeing but also of thinking and desiring. Carbone's Philosophy-Screens follows Deleuze's call for "a philosophy-cinema" that can account for these fundamental changes in perception and aesthetic production, and adapts it to twenty-first-century concerns.

Author : Francis Bond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : NYPL:33433065873998

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Screens and Galleries in English Churches by Francis Bond Pdf

Author : Sharon E. J. Gerstel
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884023117

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Thresholds of the Sacred by Sharon E. J. Gerstel Pdf

This collection of essays considers the development and meaning of the iconostasis, the screen used in churches to separate the sanctuary from the nave. The contributors approach the history of the icon screen from a variety of disciplines, including art history, theology, and architecture.

Author : Anna-Mari Almila,David Inglis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317041146

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The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling by Anna-Mari Almila,David Inglis Pdf

Veils and veiling are controversial topics in social and political life, generating debates across the world. The veil is enmeshed within a complex web of relations encompassing politics, religion and gender, and conflicts over the nature of power, legitimacy, belief, freedom, agency and emancipation. In recent years, the veil has become both a potent and unsettling symbol and a rallying-point for discourse and rhetoric concerning women, Islam and the nature of politics. Early studies in gender, doctrine and politics of veiling appeared in the 1970s following the Islamic revival and ’re-veiling’ trends that were dramatically expressed by 1979’s Iranian Islamic revolution. In the 1990s, research focussed on the development of both an ’Islamic culture industry’ and greater urban middle class consumption of ’Islamic’ garments and dress styles across the Islamic world. In the last decade academics have studied Islamic fashion and marketing, the political role of the headscarf, the veiling of other religious groups such as Jews and Christians, and secular forms of modest dress. Using work from contributors across a range of disciplinary backgrounds and locations, this book brings together these research strands to form the most comprehensive book ever conceived on this topic. As such, this handbook will be of interest to scholars and students of fashion, gender studies, religious studies, politics and sociology.

Author : Lynn F. Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351608732

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Thresholds and Boundaries by Lynn F. Jacobs Pdf

Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early ‘early modern’ period -- has been much less fully investigated. Thresholds and Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1550) addresses this issue through a focus on key case studies (Sluter's portal of the Chartreuse de Champmol and the calendar pages of the Limbourg Brothers' Très Riches Heures), and on important formats (altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts). Lynn F. Jacobs examines how the visual thresholds established within Netherlandish paintings, sculptures, and manuscript illuminations become sites where artists could address relations between life and death, aristocrat and peasant, holy and profane, and man and God—and where artists could exploit the "betwixt and between" nature of the threshold to communicate, paradoxically, both connections and divisions between these different states and different worlds. Building on literary and anthropological interpretations of liminality, this book demonstrates how the exploration of boundaries in Netherlandish art infused the works with greater meaning. The book's probing of the -- often ignored --meanings of the threshold motif casts new light on key works of Netherlandish art.