Rony How Do We Look?

Resisting Visual Biopolitics
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2190-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: A Camera Obscura Book

Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on the transnational visual images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rony, Fatimah Tobing

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Tongue 1
Introduction. How Do We Look? 3
The Peonies 24
1. Annah la Javanaise 27
Under the Tree 70
2. The Still Dancer 72
The Dressing Down 108
3. Mother Dao 110
Flight 147
4. Nia Dinata 148
Conclusion. The Fourth Eye 187
Notes 191
Bibliography 213
Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Fatimah Tobing Rony is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle, also published by Duke University Press.