Vision and Blindness in Film
Author: Dago Schelin
Publisher:
Published: 2019-03-13
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9783963171444
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Vision and Blindness in Film
Author: Dago Schelin
Publisher: Büchner-Verlag
Published: 2019-02-13
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 3963176776
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In order to understand "vision", we have to look into concepts of blindness, both diegetically in typical film characters and in the representation of sight or lack thereof. A critical-historical investigation into theories of vision shows that the way we understand visuality today – scientifically and culturally – is very different from pre-modern notions and practices. In this book, Dago Schelin questions categories such as active and passive vision, tactile visuality, as well as blind vision, and discusses them alongside a variety of movies that deal with vision and blindness. Is there a connection between the filmmaker's gaze and an older pre-Keplerian ontology of vision? What is the role of sound in vision? Are our eyes mere camcorders or might they be projectors? These and other questions comprise the fascinating journey on which this study embarks.
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Touching the Rock
Author: John Hull
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1992-06-02
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 067973547X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With a foreword by Oliver Sacks Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its thorough navigation of the world of blindness—a world in which stairs are safe and snow is frightening, where food and sex lose much of their allure and playing with one's child may be agonizingly difficult. As he describes the ways in which blindness shapes his experience of his wife and children, of strangers helpful and hostile, and, above all, of his God, Hull becomes a witness in the highest, true sense. Touching the Rock is a book that will instruct, move, and profoundly transform anyone who reads it.
What leads sight to blindness: literature, film, photography and other visual media
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Published: 2003
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Em O que destina o olhar à cegueira, discutem-se algumas representações do olhar cego como condição contemporânea, em textos ficcionais e teóricos, filmes e outras mediações imagéticas. Um dos objetivos do estudo é procurar respostas para as perguntas: de que maneira falar de cegueira diante da predominância de uma civilização da imagem? Ou estar diante de um olhar que se deforma ao perceber um mundo onde as imagens são cada vez mais numerosas, porém mais diversificadas e mais intercambiáveis? Na investigação de diversos textos, percebem-se as implicações do olhar deformado na experiência acelerada das imagens contemporâneas. É esta reflexão crucial que ecoa ao longo do texto, na revisão de algumas perspectivas possíveis para pensar o problema da cegueira como ganho, como outro ponto de vista, como nova possibilidade de visão, como antídoto para o acúmulo sem limite do excesso. E ainda: tendo o cuidado de não repetir os clichês do gênero que descobrem a espantosa capacidade de os cegos exercitarem sua percepção diante do mundo que se lhes apresenta como retrato de uma negação: a negação do visual.
Blindness
Author: José Saramago
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-08-23
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 054753759X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master.”—Boston Globe A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses—and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit. "This is a an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century."—Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
The Blind Photographer
Author: Julian Rothenstein
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1616895640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The blind photographer cannot see a butterfly perched perfectly still on a flower, a bowl of sweet-smelling fruit, or a child's rattle on a darkened floor, but the mind's eye is sharply focused. How then, do blind or partially sighted people capture such extraordinary images? The photographs in this revelatory book suggest a deeper truth: that blindness is itself a kind of seeing, and that those who can see are often blind to the strangeness and beauty of the world around them. As the blind photographer Evgen Bavcar writes, "Photography must belong to the blind, who in their daily existence have learned to become the masters of camera obscura." Through the photographs of more than fifty blind or partially sighted people from around the world, this exhilarating book—the first to explore this phenomenon in all its vibrancy and diversity—will make you see differently.
Annotated Listing of Films on Blindness and Visual Impairment
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-05
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780260341167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Annotated Listing of Films on Blindness and Visual Impairment: Compiled for the Film Festival, Aer International Conference, Montreal, July, 1988 Features a low vision senior citizen accomplishing many activities of daily living. General introduction to blindness, including mobility, aids for kitchen organization, playing cards, etc. Wisconsin School for the Visually Handicapped 17% minutes, 1984. Presents instructional strategies used in working with the multi handicapped visually impaired. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Crashing Through
Author: Robert Kurson
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2008-08-19
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0812973682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s vision. It would allow him to drive, to read, to see his children’s faces. But the procedure was filled with gambles, some of them deadly, others beyond May’s wildest dreams. Beautifully written and thrillingly told, Crashing Through is a journey of suspense, daring, romance, and insight into the mysteries of vision and the brain. Robert Kurson gives us a fascinating account of one man’s choice to explore what it means to see–and to truly live. Praise for the National Bestseller Crashing Through: “An incredible human story [told] in gripping fashion . . . a great read.” –Chicago Sun-Times “Inspiring.” –USA Today “[An] astonishing story . . . memorably told . . . May is remarkable. . . . Don’t be surprised if your own vision mists over now and then.” –Chicago Tribune “[A] moving account [of] an extraordinary character.” –People “Terrific . . . [a] genuinely fascinating account of the nature of human vision.” –The Washington Post “Kurson is a man with natural curiosity and one who can feel the excitement life has to offer. One of his great gifts is he makes you feel it, too.” –The Kansas City Star “Propulsive . . . a gripping adventure story.” –Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Notes on Blindness
Author: John Hull
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2017-02-09
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1782833617
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A rediscovered modern classic: a life-affirming account of one man's journey into blindness 'A gift to the whole of humanity' Cathy Rentzenbrink Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep depression. Soon, he had forgotten what his wife and daughter looked like. In Notes on Blindness, John reveals his profound sense of loss, his altered perceptions of time and space, of waking and sleeping, love and companionship. With astonishing lucidity of thought and no self-pity, he describes the horror of being faceless, and asks what it truly means to be a husband and father. And eventually, he finds a new way of experiencing the world, of seeing the light. Based on John's diaries recorded on audio tape, this is a profoundly moving, wise and life-affirming account of one man's journey into blindness. 'Poignant and wise' Andrew Solomon Published in partnership with Wellcome Collection.
