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Global visions : around-the-world travel and visual culture in early modernity
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De Luca, Tiago (2018) Global visions : around-the-world travel and visual culture in early modernity. In: Bayman, Louis and Pinazza, Natália, (eds.) Journeys on Screen Theory, Ethics, Aesthetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 19-35. ISBN 9781474421836
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Abstract
In this essay I argue that the global imaginaries surrounding the emergence of cinema provide a meaningful field against which contemporary ones can be held up and deconstructed, and vice versa. While globalising phenomena and discourses are often associated with the end of the twentieth century, a look at the media-scape within which cinema emerges reveals that grappling with the world as a – and in its – totality was deeply built into the visual culture of the time – a phenomenon that resulted in no small measure from the contemporary popularity (and feasibility) of round-the-world travels and imperialist expeditions. To investigate some of the earliest examples by which the world was visually encompassed and the respective discourses they mobilised might thus help us shed a more nuanced light on the ways we currently conceive of and perceive the Earth.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > ND Painting P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures T Technology > TR Photography |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Globalization in motion pictures, Global warming in art | ||||||
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Edinburgh | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781474421836 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Journeys on Screen Theory, Ethics, Aesthetics | ||||||
| Editor: | Bayman, Louis and Pinazza, Natália | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 November 2018 | ||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 304 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 19-35 | ||||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Edinburgh University Press | ||||||
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