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Book No Power Without an Image

Download or read book No Power Without an Image written by Libby Saxton and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections between seven celebrated photographs of political struggles, taken between 1936 and 1968, and cinema in all its forms. Moving from the 'paper cinema' of magazines via newsreels and film journals, to documentary, fiction and experimental films, this fascinating book draws on original archival research and multidisciplinary icon theory to explore new ways of thinking about the confluence of still and moving images.

Book Sensing the Nation s Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stefan Huygebaert
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2018-03-22
  • ISBN : 3319754971
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Sensing the Nation s Law written by Stefan Huygebaert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the nation – and its (fundamental) law – are ‘sensed’ by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until our age of contested democratic legitimacy. Contemporary democratic legitimacy is tied, among other things, to consent, to representation, to the identity of ruler and ruled, and, of course, to legality and the legal forms through which democracy is structured. This book expands the ways in which we can understand and appreciate democratic legitimacy. If (democratic) communities are “imagined” this book suggests that their “rightfulness” must be “sensed” – analogously to the need for justice not only to be done, but to be seen to be done. This book brings together legal, historical and philosophical perspectives on the representation and iconography of the nation in the European, North American and Australian contexts from contributors in law, political science, history, art history and philosophy.

Book No Caption Needed

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  • Author : Robert Hariman
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2007-06
  • ISBN : 0226316068
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book No Caption Needed written by Robert Hariman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gaunt woman stares into the bleakness of the Great Depression. An exuberant sailor plants a kiss on a nurse in the heart of Times Square. A naked Vietnamese girl runs in terror from a napalm attack. An unarmed man stops a tank in Tiananmen Square. These and a handful of other photographs have become icons of public culture: widely recognized, historically significant, emotionally resonant images that are used repeatedly to negotiate civic identity. But why are these images so powerful? How do they remain meaningful across generations? What do they expose--and what goes unsaid? InNo Caption Needed, Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subsequent circulation through an astonishing array of media, including stamps, posters, billboards, editorial cartoons, TV shows, Web pages, tattoos, and more. As these iconic images are reproduced and refashioned by governments, commercial advertisers, journalists, grassroots advocates, bloggers, and artists, their alterations throw key features of political experience into sharp relief. Iconic images are revealed as models of visual eloquence, signposts for collective memory, means of persuasion across the political spectrum, and a crucial resource for critical reflection. Arguing against the conventional belief that visual images short-circuit rational deliberation and radical critique, Hariman and Lucaites make a bold case for the value of visual imagery in a liberal-democratic society.No Caption Neededis a compelling demonstration of photojournalism's vital contribution to public life.

Book Washington News Letter

Download or read book Washington News Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Not to Be Wrong

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  • Author : Jordan Ellenberg
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2015-05-26
  • ISBN : 0143127535
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book How Not to Be Wrong written by Jordan Ellenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn’t confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do—the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It’s a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does “public opinion” really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer? How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician’s method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman—minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia’s views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can’t figure out about you, and the existence of God. Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is “an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength.” With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how.

Book The Word

Download or read book The Word written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northfield Echoes

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  • Author : Delavan Leonard Pierson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Northfield Echoes written by Delavan Leonard Pierson and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Architect

Download or read book The British Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Journal of Science

Download or read book American Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encounters with Godard

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  • Author : James S. Williams
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2016-05-09
  • ISBN : 1438460643
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Encounters with Godard written by James S. Williams and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with Godard takes the reader on a personal voyage into the sensory pleasures and polyphonic rhythms of Jean-Luc Godard's multimedia work since the late 1970s, from his feature films and video essays to his published writings, art books, and media performances. Godard, suggests James S. Williams, lays ethical claim to the cinematic, defined in the broadest terms as relationality and artistic resistance. An introductory chapter on the extended history of La Chinoise (1967), a film explicitly of montage, is followed by seven different types of critical encounters with Godard, encompassing the fields of art and photography, music and literature, and foregrounding themes of gender and sexuality, race and violence, mystery and emotion. The Godard who emerges here is a restless and radical experimenter who establishes new cinematic thresholds through new technology and expands the creative potential and free exchange of the archives. Williams examines works including Nouvelle vague (1990), Film socialisme (2010), Hélas pour moi (1993), and the magnum opus Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988–98). Wide-ranging and accessible, Encounters with Godard marks a major intervention in the study of film aesthetics and ethics while forging a vital dialogue with literature, history and politics, art and art history, music and musicology, philosophy, and aesthetics.

Book Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review

Download or read book Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Ophthalmology

Download or read book The American Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Ophthalmology written by Casey Albert Wood and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medical Times and Hospital Gazette

Download or read book The Medical Times and Hospital Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Christian Science Journal

Download or read book The Christian Science Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Series of Pamphlets on the Doctrines of the Gospel

Download or read book A Series of Pamphlets on the Doctrines of the Gospel written by Orson Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Apocalypse Explained  Chapters V VI

Download or read book The Apocalypse Explained Chapters V VI written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Mother  a Gospel of the Eternally feminine

Download or read book The Great Mother a Gospel of the Eternally feminine written by Carl Henrik Andreas Bjerregaard and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: