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Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)
Akira Lippit
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Description for Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 42 halftones. BIC Classification: 1F; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 228 x 11. Weight in Grams: 300.
This book explores the avisual and its effect on the visual world. 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'ichiro 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 ... Read more
This book explores the avisual and its effect on the visual world. 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'ichiro 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
299g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816646111
SKU
V9780816646111
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About Akira Lippit
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).
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