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The Lure of Images

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000158304

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This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema. David Morgan explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made special use of visual media to instruct the public, to practice devotion and ritual, and to form children and converts. Examples include: studying Jesus as an American idol Jewish kitchens and Christian Parlors Billy Sunday and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the anti-slavery movement. This unique perspective reveals the importance of visual media to the construction and practice of sectarian and national community in a nation of immigrants old and new, and the tensions between the assimilation and the preservation of ethnic and racial identities. As well as the contribution of visual media to the religious life of Christians and Jews, Morgan shows how images have informed the perceptions and practices of other religions in America, including New Age, Buddhist and Hindu spirituality, and Mormonism, Native American Religions and the Occult.

The Lure of the Image

Author : Daniel Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520344259

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The Lure of the Image shows how a close study of camera movement challenges key assumptions underlying a wide range of debates within cinema and media studies. Highlighting the shifting intersection of point of view and camera position, Daniel Morgan draws on a range of theoretical arguments and detailed analyses across cinemas to reimagine the relation between spectator and camera—and between camera and film world. With sustained accounts of how the camera moves in films by Fritz Lang, Guru Dutt, Max Ophuls, and Terrence Malick and in contemporary digital technologies, The Lure of the Image exposes the persistent fantasy that we move with the camera within the world of the film and examines the ways that filmmakers have exploited this fantasy. In so doing, Morgan provides a more flexible account of camera movement, one that enables a fuller understanding of the political and ethical stakes entailed by this key component of cinematic style.

The Lure of the Image

Author : Daniel Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520344273

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The Lure of the Image shows how a close study of camera movement challenges key assumptions underlying a wide range of debates within cinema and media studies. Highlighting the shifting intersection of point of view and camera position, Daniel Morgan draws on a range of theoretical arguments and detailed analyses across cinemas to reimagine the relation between spectator and camera—and between camera and film world. With sustained accounts of how the camera moves in films by Fritz Lang, Guru Dutt, Max Ophuls, and Terrence Malick and in contemporary digital technologies, The Lure of the Image exposes the persistent fantasy that we move with the camera within the world of the film and examines the ways that filmmakers have exploited this fantasy. In so doing, Morgan provides a more flexible account of camera movement, one that enables a fuller understanding of the political and ethical stakes entailed by this key component of cinematic style.

The Logic of the Lure

Author : John Paul Ricco
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226711010

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The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot—such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial or meaningless. With The Logic of the Lure, John Paul Ricco argues that it is precisely such fleeting, erotic, and even perverse experiences that will help us create a truly queer notion of ethics and aesthetics, one that recasts sociality and sexuality, place and finitude in ways suggested by the anonymity and itinerant lures of cruising. Shifting our attention from artworks to the work that art does, from subjectivity to becoming, and from static space to taking place, Ricco considers a variety of issues, including the work of Doug Ischar, Tom Burr, and Derek Jarman and the minor architecture of sex clubs, public restrooms, and alleyways.

The Lure of Faraway Places

Author : Herb Pohl
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770706279

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The Lure of Faraway Places is the publication canoeist Herb Pohl (1930-2006) did not live to see published. But Pohl's words and images provide a unique portrait of Canada by one who was happiest when travelling our northern waterways alone. Austrian-born Herb Pohl died at the mouth of the Michipcoten River on July 17, 2006. He is remembered as "Canada's most remarkable solo traveller." While mourning their loss, Herb Pohl's friends found, to their surprise and delight, a manuscript of wilderness writings on his desk in his lakeside apartment in Burlington, Ontario. He had hoped one day to publish his work as a book. With help and commentary from best-selling canoe author and editor James Raffan, Natural Heritage is proud to present that book, Herb's book, The Lure of Faraway Places. "There's nothing like it in canoeing literature," says Raffan. "It's part journal, part memoir, part wilderness philosophy and part tips and tricks of the most pragmatic kind written about parts of the country most of us will never see by the most committed and ambitious solo canoeist in Canadian history."

Image Control

Author : Patrick Nathan
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781640095540

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Susan Sontag meets Hanif Abdurraqib in this fascinating exploration of the unexpected connections between how we consume images and the insidious nature of Fascism. Images come at us quickly, often without context. A photograph of Syrian children suffering in the wake of a chemical attack segues into a stranger’s pristine Instagram selfie. Before we can react to either, a new meme induces a laugh and a share. While such constant give and take might seem innocent, even entertaining, this barrage of content numbs our ability to examine critically how the world, broken down into images, affects us. Images without context isolate us, turning everything we experience into mere transactions. It is exactly this alienation that leaves us vulnerable to fascism—a reactionary politics that is destroying not only our lives and our nations, but also the planet’s very ability to sustain human civilization. Who gets to control the media we consume? Can we intervene, or at least mitigate the influence of constant content? Mixing personal anecdotes with historical and political criticism, Image Control explores art, social media, photography, and other visual mediums to understand how our culture and our actions are manipulated, all the while building toward the idea that if fascism emerges as aesthetics, then so too can anti-fascism. Learning how to ethically engage with the world around us is the first line of defense we have against the forces threatening to tear that world apart.

The Lure of the Camera

Author : Charles S. Olcott
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : EAN:8596547127963

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Lure of the Camera" by Charles S. Olcott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Lure of Longboat Key

Author : Mary Lou Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Long Boat Key (Fla.)
ISBN : 0989876705

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Mary Lou Johnson's award winning fine art photography captures the unique luxury tropical island of Longboat Key in this coffee table book. The Lure of Longboat Key ~ Sunrise to Sunset is a collection of stunning four-color images that portray the natural beauty of the island from its 11-mile Gulf of Mexico shoreline to the bayside overlooking Sarasota, Florida. Some of the chapter titles are Break of Dawn, At the Water's Edge, Sea Life, Wings of Nature, Private Spaces and Secret Gardens, Soul-Filling Seas, and Evening Tranquility. So what IS the lure of Longboat Key? If you asked guests or residents that question they may pause and sigh as they struggle to answer. They may stumble to explain the strong personal emotional pull of the island and attempt to put into words that beautiful, calming feeling they have each time they cross over one of the two bridges. They may talk about their love for the turquoise waters, the white wave crests, the clean air and stunning skies, the shore birds, the tropical setting, the boutique shops and fine dining...the list goes on and on "A talented photographer with a poet's eye, Mary Lou Johnson has done something rare with The Lure of Longboat Key. She's captured not just the "real" Florida, but also the magical Florida, the one we see in our dreams and carry in our hearts. Her pictures are tender, honoring fragile details of sea oat, coquina and mist. But they are also majestic, celebrating sunset explosions and cathedrals of clouds. They're so vivid you will smell the salty air, feel the hot sand between your toes, and hear gulls calling over the fizz of the incoming tide. If you've ever lived in Florida, these pictures will take you home again. If you haven't, this beautiful book is your chance." -- Kathleen O'Brien, author

The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century

Author : L. Brake,M. Demoor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230233867

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This volume tackles the subject of illustration, technically, metaphorically and historically in nineteenth-century periodicals, displaying the ubiquity of the visual in the press: the articles cover material illustration, graphics, and design and metaphorical use of images in the letterpress, offering specific examples and theoretical approaches.

The Lure

Author : Felice Picano
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602824171

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Noel Cummings's life is about to change irrevocably. After witnessing a brutal murder, Noel is recruited to assist the police by acting as the lure for a killer who has been targeting gay men. Undercover, Noel moves deeper and deeper into the dark side of Manhattan's gay life that stirs his own secret desiresÑuntil he forgets he is only playing a role.

The Lure and the Truth of Painting

Author : Yves Bonnefoy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226064441

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Always fascinated in his poetry by the nature of color and light and the power of the image, Bonnefoy continues to pursue these themes in his discussion of the lure and truth of representation. He sees the painter as a poet whose language is visual, and he seeks to find out what visual artists can teach those who work with words.

The Lure of the Modern

Author : Shumei Shi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520220645

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"Quite apart from her contributions as a literary critic, Shu-mei Shih is able to historicize literary developments of the period most persuasively. Her analysis of Shanghai, the city, and the literary movement it spawned, is crafted with great sensitivity to both history and literature. In many ways, it is the most inclusive historical study of modern Chinese literature in its formative period."—Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation "Tracing the spectral production of 'Chinese' identity as it is disseminated globally, Shih boldly moves away from using place (ethnicity) and the body (race) to anchor Chinese identity, to argue that the visual (film) and the verbal (language and linguistics) are the most salient ones in the modern and contemporary historical formation. She succeeds brilliantly."—David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier "This is the most thoroughly researched study of Chinese modernism published to date. The author's theoretical interventions greatly enrich our understanding of colonial modernity and the stakes of comparison in cross-cultural studies. The book is a major contribution to modern Chinese literary studies and comparative literature."—Lydia Liu, editor of Tokens of Exchange

The Lure of the Edge

Author : Brenda Denzler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520224322

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The Lure of the Edge by Brenda Denzler Pdf

A scholarly exploration of the "UFO movement" probes life on the fringes of modernity, tracing the fascinating links between science and religion implied by this philosophy.

The Lure of the Biographical

Author : Sandra Kisters
Publisher : Valiz/Vis-A-VIS
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9492095254

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"The lure of the biographical zooms in on the supposed relationship between the art and the personal image of artists. The book explores how visual artists use their personal history and image to make a name for themselves, and how they try to control how their artistic output is interpreted. At the same time, it investigates how other parties such as art critics, biographers, photographers, filmmakers, art historians and art dealers link artists’ lives to their work. The framework for studying the (self-)representation of artists focuses on the textual and visual means used by artists as well as others. Through three detailed case studies of the image and work of French sculptor Auguste Rodin, American painter Georgia O’Keeffe, and British painter Francis Bacon, the book demonstrates what mechanisms and strategies are at play in creating the artist’s image, from the nineteenth to the late-twentieth century, and, in addition, proposes a model for future research into questions of (self-)representation"--Back cover.

The Embodied Eye

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520272224

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"Exploring a dazzling variety of religious imagery, David Morgan shows how vision functions as an active, physical process, embedded in bodily experience and profoundly shaped by social practice. Morgan's bold, thoughtful interpretations will fascinate art historians and students of visual culture as well as historians of religion.” -Pepe Karmel, Department of Art History, New York University "The Embodied Eye is an important and truly groundbreaking book. It represents a substantive and quite fascinating extension of David Morgan's previous work- especially as it impressively shows us how 'seeing' is the primary medium of social life, and materially integrates the body of the individual and the body of the group. Morgan is unquestionably the pioneering theorist in the whole emergent field of Visual and Culture Studies as it relates to religion and art." -Norman Girardot, University Distinguished Professor, Lehigh University “Under David Morgan’s inspiring guidance, readers are taken on a dazzling journey through religious images that mediate worlds of faith. Embedding vision in the body, this book stands out with its thought-provoking approach to religious media as material and embodied interfaces that underpin the social construction of the sacred.” -Birgit Meyer, Professor of Religious Studies, Utrecht University