Atomic Light Shadow Optics

Author : Akira Mizuta Lippit
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816646104
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atomic Light (shadow Optics) written by Akira Mizuta Lippit and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a taut, poetic style, Lippit produces speculative readings of secret and shadow archives and visual structures or phenomenologies of the inside, charting the materiality of what both can and cannot be seen in the radioactive light of the twentieth century.

Author : Akira Mizuta Lippit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781452907406
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atomic Light written by Akira Mizuta Lippit and published by . This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and “invisible men” are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) reveals these hidden interiors of cultural life, the “avisual” as it has emerged in the writings of Jorge Luis Borges and Jacques Derrida, Tanizaki Jun’ichirô and Sigmund Freud, and H. G. Wells and Ralph Ellison, and in the early cinema and the postwar Japanese films of Kobayashi Masaki, Teshigahara Hiroshi, Kore-eda Hirokazu, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi, all under the shadow cast by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Akira Mizuta Lippit focuses on historical moments in which such modes of avisuality came into being—the arrival of cinema, which brought imagination to life; psychoanalysis, which exposed the psyche; the discovery of x-rays, which disclosed the inside of the body; and the “catastrophic light” of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which instituted an era of atomic discourses. With a taut, poetic style, Lippit produces speculative readings of secret and shadow archives and visual structures or phenomenologies of the inside, charting the materiality of what both can and cannot be seen in the radioactive light of the twentieth century. Akira Mizuta Lippit is professor of cinema, comparative literature, and Japanese culture at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (Minnesota, 2000).

Author : Akira Lippit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520953916
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ex-Cinema written by Akira Lippit and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-"—meaning from, outside, and no longer—Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. Ex-Cinema is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.

Author : S. Letokhov
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9783718656974
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atom Optics with Laser Light written by S. Letokhov and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals specifically with the manipulation of atoms by laser light, describing the focusing, channeling and reflection of atoms by laser fields. It also describes the potential fields required to cause the phase change of the wave function necessary for the atomic interactions to occur.

Author : Steve Anker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520249103
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Light written by Steve Anker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A superb collection, as exciting, in many ways, as the works it chronicles."--Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)

Author : Hillary L. Chute
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674504518
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disaster Drawn written by Hillary L. Chute and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics have shown a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Hillary Chute explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war.

Author : Raminder Kaur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000084426
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atomic Mumbai written by Raminder Kaur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atomic Mumbai offers an insightful historical and ethnographic account of how nuclear issues are represented in popular culture, print media, films, documentaries, advertising and superhero comics, driven by perceptions of those based in the city of Mumbai, a prime site of nuclear establishments in India since the mid-1940s. Based on long-term fieldwork, and including rare photographs, narratives and extensive interviews, the volume documents urban nuclear imaginaries, along with their terrifying association with genetic mutation and death.

Author : Niharika Dinkar
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526139650
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empires of light written by Niharika Dinkar and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This book describes how imperial mappings of geographical space in terms of ‘cities of light’ and ‘hearts of darkness’ coincided with the industrialisation of light (in homes, streets, theatres) and its instrumentalisation through new representative forms (photography, film, magic lanterns, theatrical lighting). Cataloguing the imperial vision in its engagement with colonial India, the book evaluates responses by the celebrated Indian painter Ravi Varma (1848–1906) to reveal the centrality of light in technologies of vision, not merely as an ideological effect but as a material presence that produces spaces and inscribes bodies.

Author : Claudette Lauzon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228013763
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Post-Atomic Eyes written by Claudette Lauzon and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to live in a post-atomic world? Photography and contemporary art offer a provocative lens through which to comprehend the by-products of the atomic age, from weapons proliferation, nuclear disaster, and aerial surveillance to toxic waste disposal and climate change. Confronting cultural fallout from the dawn of the nuclear age, Through Post-Atomic Eyes addresses the myriad iterations of nuclear threat and their visual legacy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether in the iconic black-and-white photograph of a mushroom cloud rising over Nagasaki in 1945 or in the steady stream of real-time video documenting the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, atomic culture - and our understanding of it - is inextricably constructed by the visual. This book takes the image as its starting point to address the visual inheritance of atomic anxieties; the intersection of photography, nuclear industries, and military technocultures; and the complex temporality of nuclear technologies. Contemporary artists contribute lens-based works that explore the consequences of the nuclear, and its afterlives, in the Anthropocene. Revealing, through both art and prose, startling new connections between the ongoing threat of nuclear catastrophe and current global crises, Through Post-Atomic Eyes is a richly illustrated examination of how photography shapes and is shaped by nuclear culture.

Author : Rosalyn Deutsche
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231152787
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiroshima After Iraq written by Rosalyn Deutsche and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rosalyn Deutsche argues for a certain modesty---or perhaps, I should say, a modest uncertainty---with regard to the demands placed upon art in response to war. She brings a deep knowledge of both contemporary art and the psychoanalytic literature on war to her study as well as the careful exposition and lucid prose we've come to expect from her work."---Douglas Crimp, author of Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics --