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Migrants' Perspectives, Migrants in Perspective
Presenting the depiction of migration through a variety of cinematic outlets, this volume explores film's depiction of human displacement in different geographic circumstances and probes the reasons why cinema so frequently evokes a stereotype of in-transit people. Techniques of affect and distance are revealed in the contributors' close film studies of wide-ranging matter which include works by the Dardenne brothers, transnational video artists Ghazel and Bouchra Khalili, and studies of Syrian films at Western festivals. Migrants' Perspective, Migrants in Perspective: World Cinema deciphers the semiotics of migration and its representation in cinema, exploring both the complications of shooting a migrant subject, and the challenges of including the migrants' point of view.
Writing As Intermediary
For the cultural history of the Islamic World, writing has long been recognized as a highly important form of art, as calligraphy has traditionally held a particular place in the perception of Islamic elites and their artistic practices. The culture of calligraphy was intimately connected with the production of prestigious book manuscripts, but reached a climax in the creation of single-leaf calligraphies that were also highly appreciated by collectors in centres of Islamic culture from the Ottoman Mediterranean to post-Timurid Central Asia, Safavid Iran and Mughal India. At the same time, writing by its very nature fulfilled its age-old functions of encoding verbal language as text.The pres...
A Companion to Textile Culture
A lively and innovative collection of new and recent writings on the cultural contexts of textiles The study of textile culture is a dynamic field of scholarship which spans disciplines and crosses traditional academic boundaries. A Companion to Textile Culture is an expertly curated compendium of new scholarship on both the historical and contemporary cultural dimensions of textiles, bringing together the work of an interdisciplinary team of recognized experts in the field. The Companion provides an expansive examination of textiles within the broader area of visual and material culture, and addresses key issues central to the contemporary study of the subject. A wide range of methodologica...
Cartographies of Cloth
As we must know, the hijab has been historically considered in Euro-America a symbol of difference between east and west. The hijab was also mostly seen and described as awful regarding gender, politics, visuality, and the conception of self. Even France still has a law against it. Surprisingly, the Muslim woman's veil constitutes a common site in Euro-American visual culture. Contemporary veil art has helped inspire some scholarship which has begun to broach the topic of the veil specifically, examining its role in colonial, modernist, feminist, and Muslim discourses, probing its resurgence east and west, and analyzing its significance in media representations. Arguing in support of the veil's multivalence and seeking to rectify the dearth of many studies on the topic, this book initiates a mapping of the veil in contemporary art, underscoring the alternative narratives to mainstream the representations it proffers and exploring its myriad meanings and its link to the wider issues of gender, politics, and identity. I hope the book will truly inspire our important multiculturalism.
Seeing Differently
Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view, to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond. The book is both a history of these ideas (for example, tracing the dominance of a binary model of self and other from Hegel through classic 1970s identity politics) and a political response to the common claim in art and popular political discourse that we are "beyond" or "post-" identity. In challenging this latte...
Muslim American Writers at Home
An anthology of diverse voices of North American Muslim writers.Through stories, essays and poems, they share their family lore, spiritual journeys, childhood dreams, and memories of homes they left and where they stay.
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