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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Cultural spaces
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Cultural spaces.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction. Visual Autobiography in the Frame: Critical Embodiment and Cultural Pedagogy / Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki -- I: Proliferating Monstrosity. 2. Quickening Paternity: Cyberspace, Surveillance, and the Performance of Male Pregnancy / Sayantani DasGupta -- 3. "Virtual" Autobiography? Anorexia, Obsession, and Calvin Klein / Mebbie Bell -- 4. Big Judy: Fatness, Shame, and the Hybrid Autobiography / Allyson Mitchell. |
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II: Rupture and Recognition: Body Re-Formations. 5. Sex Traitors: Autoethnography by Straight Men / Richard Fung -- 6. Looks Can Be Deceiving: Exploring Transsexual Body Alchemy through a Neoliberal Lens / Dan Irving -- 7. Visceral / Auto biographies: Plastic Surgery and Gender in Reality TV / Simon Strick. |
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III: Interior Lives: Conditions of Persistence and Survival. 8. My Life as a Museum, or, Performing Indigenous Epistemologies / Peter Morin -- 9. Gut Reactions: Mona Hatoum's Corps etranger / Kim Sawchuk -- 10. "Please Don't Let Me Be Like This!": Un-wounding Photographic Representations by Persons with Intellectual Disability / Ann Fudge Schormans and Adrienne Chambon -- 11. "Why should our bodies end at the skin?" Cancer Pathography, Comics, and Embodiment / Laura McGavin. |
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IV: Spectatorship and Historical Memory: The Ethics of Critical Embodiment. 12. Witnessing Genocide and the Challenges of Ethical Spectatorship / Wendy Kozol -- 13. Digital Melancholia: Archived Bodies in Carmin Karasic's With Liberty and Justice for All / Sheila Petty -- 14. Connective Tissue: Summoning the Spectator to Visual Autobiography / Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki. |
| Summary |
With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual autobiography's involvement in the global cultural politics of health, disability, and the body. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Visual communication -- Political aspects.
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Visual communication -- Political aspects. |
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Visual communication. |
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Visual communication -- Social aspects.
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Visual communication -- Social aspects. |
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Autobiography -- Political aspects.
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Autobiography. |
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Autobiography -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
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Human body in mass media.
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Human body in mass media. |
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Human body in popular culture.
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Human body in popular culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Brophy, Sarah, editor.
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Hladki, Janice, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781442666146 electronic book |
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1442666145 electronic book |
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9781442616097 |
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