How Do We Look?: Resisting Visual Biopolitics (A Camera Obscura Book) - Tapa blanda

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Rony, Fatimah Tobing

 
9781478014607: How Do We Look?: Resisting Visual Biopolitics (A Camera Obscura Book)
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ISBN 10: 1478014601 ISBN 13: 9781478014607
Editorial: Duke University Press, 2022

Sinopsis

In How Do We Look? Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational 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. Rony outlines the mechanisms of visual biopolitics by examining Paul Gauguin’s 1893 portrait of Annah la Javanaise-a trafficked thirteen-year-old girl found wandering the streets of Paris-as well as US ethnographic and documentary films. In each instance, the figure of the Indonesian woman is inextricably tied to discourses of primitivism, savagery, colonialism, exoticism, and genocide. Rony also focuses on acts of resistance to visual biopolitics in film, writing, and photography. These works, such as Rachmi Diyah Larasati’s The Dance that Makes You Vanish, Vincent Monnikendam’s Mother Dao (1995), and the collaborative films of Nia Dinata, challenge the naturalized methods of seeing that justify exploitation, dehumanization, and early death of people of color. By theorizing the mechanisms of visual biopolitics, Rony elucidates both its violence and its vulnerability.

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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.

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Duke University Press
Año de publicación
2022
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ISBN 10 
1478014601
ISBN 13 
9781478014607
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Número de páginas
248
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