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MS Visual Culture

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  • Profile picture of Hania A.M. Nashef

    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 2 days ago

    In his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]

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    Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 4 months, 4 weeks ago

    Very excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle

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    Doris Hambuch deposited Bridges within the Arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 months ago

    Tracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]

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    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 months ago

    Despite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]

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    Adrienne Brown started the topic Visual Culture MLA Convention CFPs in the discussion Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago

    Below you’ll find four CFP’s for proposed panels sponsored by the Visual Culture Forum for this year’s MLA.  Please do circulate widely and consider contributing.

    1- Visual Culture Forum seeks proposals for guaranteed MLA session, Women and Frames of Violence. How do women engage, practice and perform violence in visual culture? Considerations b…[Read more]

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    Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Enigmas de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    This article reviews four crucial moments of the editorial life of Guaman Poma de Ayala’s “Nueva corónica y buen gobierno” [New Chronicle and Good Government], a 1189-page history of Peru before, during, and after the Spanish conquest. The chronicle includes 399 ink drawings made by the author. The essay also addresses unanswered questions…[Read more]

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    Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Invited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]

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    Susan Larson deposited Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume examines Spanish cinema through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age. Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film brings together the scholarship of an…[Read more]

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    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago

    Since the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been
    waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by s…[Read more]

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    Joseph R. Millichap deposited “The Dark Mirror of Our Lives”: Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, and Auto/biography in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago

    First presented as a paper at the 2018 SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, this article will become a chapter of my book in progress on the photobooks of the 1930s and 1940s illustrated with the photographs of the Farm Security Administration.

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    Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Mujeres en papel y tinta: identificación, automodelaje y remodelaje en el archivo colonial in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago

    Direct and indirect women’s access to the expression of their ideas and wishes on ink and paper has significantly contributed to the construction of the Latin American colonial archive. Nevertheless, this contribution to the area of Latin American women’s studies still remains little known and understudied. The colonial tradition of women’s autho…[Read more]

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    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza” in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago

    Often described as an open-air prison, the citizens of the Gaza Strip have long resisted a subaltern existence. Conditions in Gaza, and specifically since the Second Intifada of 2000, have increasingly worsened. With the advent of Hamas in 2006-2007, a complete blockade was imposed on the Strip. A deafening silence by the world has resulted in…[Read more]

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    Ellen Spolsky deposited Archetypes Embodied, Then and Now in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    With the support of recent theorizing in evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essay refurbishes the term archetype for reuse, recognizing that it signals a painful cognitive failure. Examples are taken from The Terminator movies and pictures of the annunciation to Mary.

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    Ellen Spolsky deposited Iconotropism as Representational Hunger: Raphael and Titian in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    Iconotropism is a gargantuan overgeneralization hypothesizing that people are hungry for pictures and feed on them, metabolize them, turn them into nourishment. The study examples are Raphael’s Transfiguration and Titian’s Diana and Actaeon. It is a contribution to embodiment theory and cognitive cultural history.

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    Ellen Spolsky deposited How Do Audiences Act? in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    This is an afterword to Movement in Literature: Exploring Kinesis Intelligence, ed. by Kathryn Banks and Timothy Chesters. (Palgrave 2018). It is intended to advance further work on kinesic intelligence by connection some of what has already been written about how the forms of fiction appeal to what human bodies know about action with what can be…[Read more]

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    Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Social Media Research in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago

    Social media is a key contemporary site of activity for politics, entertainment, and relationships, but how can we study it? This course combines theory and practice; students will both read canonical and contemporary social media research from leading scholars and learn to engage with social media platforms to collect and analyze their own data.…[Read more]

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    Doris Hambuch deposited Liberating Bicycles in Niki Caro’s ‘Whale Rider’ and in Haifaa Al Mansour’s ‘Wadjda’ in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago

    Susan B. Anthony declared in 1896 that the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” The comparative study of ‘Whale Rider’ (2002) and ‘Wadjda’ (2012) demonstrates that this liberating effect of the basic tool of transportation is being reinforced in the new millennium. The analysis further situates two con…[Read more]

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    Albertine Fox deposited Hearing the Crackles in the Background: Listening and Female Intimacy in ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months ago

    Online at: https://screen-queens.com/2020/04/14/listening-and-female-intimacy-in-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/

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    Andrew G. Christensen deposited On Being One’s Own Heir: British Portraiture, Metaphysical Inheritance, and The Picture of Dorian Gray in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    Much scholarship on The Picture of Dorian Gray has focused on its possible textual sources and its place in literary traditions. This article demonstrates that by contextualizing the novel in the history of art and the tradition of British portraiture, we are able to answer significant yet overlooked questions such as why Wilde chose “picture” rat…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Ophelia Unbound in Asian Performances.” Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 37 (2019): 1-12 in the group Group logo of MS Visual CultureMS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    Asian directors leverage Shakespeare’s own propensity to undermine dominant ideologies of gender—notably through the Ophelia figure—in their effort to renew Asian performance traditions. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? How does Ophelia become “unbound” through supraling…[Read more]

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