Search results for "Visual Culture"

Who designs the classroom’s images? Study of visual culture diversity at three Valencian schools

2021

The research reported on here elaborated on the effects that images displayed on the walls have in schools as a variable in evaluating the educational quality. Mixed methods were used to analyse the images displayed on the walls of 27 classrooms to determine their provenance and authorship. The results show quantitative, qualitative and aesthetical values of the school visual culture, thanks to the numerous photographic series (resembling in graphs) which are a testimony of each classroom. After the typologies of the displayed images at the schools had been documented, it was demonstrated that images mostly come from the school products industry and from faculty members.i  The kind of analy…

Recensione a Giuliana Bruno, Surface: Matter of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2014, 288 pp

2015

Recensione al volume Giuliana Bruno, Surface: Matter of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2014, 288 pp

Recensione di African Migrants and Europe. Managing the Ultimate Frontier di Lorenzo Rinelli

2016

Facing the face – the construction of the frontal face in prehistoric and ancient two- and three-dimensional images

2020

Interpersonal communication depends to a large extent on the human face, with its many sensory organs, easily recognizable features and expression capacities. This is clearly evidenced by the abund...

FIctional Artworks. Literary Ékphrasis and the Invention of Images

2016

The volume is devoted to images in painting, photography and cinema invented by literature. At the same time it intends to question, through this perspective, the relationship between text and image, between verbal and visual in modern and contemporary literature. The authors investigate the mutual boundaries between literature and arts from the point of view of aesthetics, visual culture and literary theory, trying to build a map of the notional ékphrasis, a description which constitutes the work of art while telling it.

Mildred Pierce e i margini della crisi

2013

Protagonista del romanzo di James M. Cain (1941) e della trasposizione cinematografica di Michael Curtiz con Joan Crawford nel 1945, e poi televisiva Todd Haynes con Kate Winslet nel 2011, Mildred Pierce è stata oggetto di indagini all’interno di diversi approcci degli studi culturali, all’incrocio tra film studies, gender studies e women studies, che hanno sottolineato la reiterata importanza del modello di donna veicolato dal personaggio, che mina la stabilità istituzionale, politica e culturale dell’ordine patriarcale. Quando la crisi sembra aprire una crepa nel sistema fallogocentrico occidentale, creando uno spazio all’azione femminile, la violenta repressione cui Mildred viene ad ogni…

The soundslide report : innovative journalism or misplaced works of art?

2014

Published version of an article in the journal: Nordicom Review. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2014-0007 Open Access The audio slideshow-or soundslide report-represents a new format for journalistic reporting on online news sites. It is not very widely used, but it has certain discursive and aesthetic potentials indicating that it could contribute substantially to the ecology of journalistic genres. The article offers an illustration and discussion of these potentials, asking how the format communicates and how it affects journalism in general. Starting out with a close reading of a sample text and a discussion of the format's position in a network of g…

A prequel to Nollywood: South African photo novels and their pan-African consumption in the late 1960s

2010

This article interrogates the history of the photo novel in Africa with particular reference to African Film, a magazine of almost pan-African circulation, published between 1968 and 1972 in South Africa. Featuring the adventures of Lance Spearman, an African crime fighter, the magazine was read widely across Anglophone Africa, from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. After a brief introduction to the history of the photo novel, the author discusses the production, content, reception, and legacy of the Lance Spearman photo novels. It is argued that Lance Spearman may be understood as a crossover of James Bond and Philip Marlowe, and several influences from…

Visualising political thinking on the screen : a dialogue between von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt and its protagonist

2016

This article analyses Margarethe von Trotta’s film Hannah Arendt: The Woman Who Saw Banality in Evil through its protagonist’s own writings on visual culture, visibility and invisibility in the context of political thinking. We start by clarifying Arendt’s understanding of political theory as an activity aiming to provoke thinking. We then discuss systematically the visual language of the film and offer a typology of its representations of political thinking, subdivided into a part on internalisation and one on externalisation (dialogue). We emphasise von Trotta’s reliance on a negative approach, i.e. the representation of thinking through the absence of any other activity while thinking, c…

1914-1918. L'Album della Guerra: regime telescopico e montaggio fotografico della Storia

2014

Negli archivi europei un cercatore di immagini può davvero diventare il pescatore del mare di cui Hannah Arendt parla a proposito di Walter Benjamin collezionista, cioè di Benjamin storico. In breve, di Benjamin filosofo della storia. In particolare, si tratta di sapersi immergere, saper andare al fondo di un patrimonio fotografico enorme che mostra fin dal primo sguardo – e di sguardo si tratterà in modo esteso – una straordinaria accumulazione di immagini di guerra. La relazione tra fotografia e guerra, infatti, è stata sottolineata da molti pensatori e filosofi – e dallo stesso Benjamin –, ma anche da artisti e sperimentatori di tecniche fotografiche del XX secolo, e in particolare, da u…