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Title Body between materiality and power : essays in visual studies / edited by Nasheli Jiménez del Val.

Publication Info. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 208 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-199).
Contents Introduction: the body between materiality and power / Nasheli Jiménez del Val -- Transmutations: body and dictatorship in Chilean autobiographical documentaries of the 2000s / Jose M. Santa Cruz G. -- Disappeared and the significant re-materialization of the absent body: art and social activism in Argentina / Andrea Diaz Mattei -- Bodies, ruptures, and other voids in post-dictatorship Uruguayan representation / Antonella Medici -- Embodiment of femicide in the work of Regina Jose Galindo / Julia Ramirez Blanco -- Cultural activism: spaces for a shared experience / Laia Manonelles Moner -- Imagining the uprooted child: pain, evacuation, and World War II / Leticia Fernadnez-Fontecha -- Hyperproudtive factories: from Fordish discipline to "flexible" (self)exploitation/ An arts practice approach / Rafael Pinilla Sanchez -- Body visualization and power/knowledge / Polona Tratink -- Subversions of the body: pleausre, monstrosity, destruction / Matylda Figlerozwicz -- My eyes haven't got enough hands: exhibit B / Giudia Grechi -- Food and the (dec)colonization of post-apartheid identities in South African visual art / Tajana Pavlov-West -- "Afterwards": struggling with bodies in the dump of history / Marina Grzinic.
Summary "This volume situates and problematizes the points of tension implicated in diverse historical and theoretical conceptualizations of the body through a visual studies framework. By proposing materiality and power as two polarities through which the body is mobilized, it highlights the interstitial function of the body as a mediator between materiality and politics beyond the body/soul-mind dichotomy. Specifically, the book brings together complex analytical approaches to representations of the body in diverse media, such as the visual arts, television, film, literature, architecture, dance, and theatre, among others. As a result, and to highlight the interdisciplinary dimension of this collection of essays, Body between Power and Materiality includes texts by scholars in a wide range of fields, from art historians, media studies experts, and sociologists to literary theorists."-- Provided by publishers.
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Subject Human figure in art.
Human figure in art.
Human body in mass media.
Human body in mass media.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Power (Social sciences) in art.
Power (Social sciences) in art.
Power (Social sciences)
Power (Social sciences)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Jiménez del Val, Nasheli, 1978- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Body between materiality and power. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 1443895334 9781443895330 (OCoLC)959034316
ISBN 9781443812801 (electronic book)
1443812803 (electronic book)
9781443895330
1443895334