Essays about: "haptic spectatorship"

Found 3 essays containing the words haptic spectatorship.

  1. 1. Animated Memories : A case study of the animated documentary 'Saydnaya – Inside a Syrian Torture Prison' (2016) and its potential within social memory

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Melina Scheuermann; [2019]
    Keywords : Animated documentary; social memory; testimony; forensic aesthetics; haptic spectatorship; haptic materiality; indexicality; movement; montage; navigation;

    Abstract : Through its ability to create images of non-representable incidents animation expands the range and depth of what documentary can represent and how. This master thesis investigates the potential of animated documentary within social memory exemplified by the interactive animated documentary Saydnaya – Inside a Syrian Torture Prison (Forensic Architecture, 2016). READ MORE

  3. 2. Unreal Realms : Coney Island and Immersion as a Lost Sense of the Real

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Anna Grankvist; [2010]
    Keywords : Embodiment; Visual Culture; Coney Island; Immersion; Space; Haptic; Hyperreality; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the concept of immersion concerning a physical space rather than a cinematic or virtual reality. The term has, within contemporary research of visual culture, often been ascribed to computer-generated realities in which the spectator is absorbed within a hermetically closed-off image space of illusion. READ MORE

  4. 3. Representations - Practice - Spectatorship : A Study of Haptic Relations between Independent Cinema and Market-led Urbanization in contemporary China.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Andreas Tibrand; [2007]
    Keywords : China; production of space; social space; modernization; motion pictures; film; visual culture; everyday life; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This text attempts to describe and analyze the haptic relations between non-official, i.e. independent, cinema and market-led urbanization in contemporary China. From the theoretical context of recent scholarship on Visual Culture and film history, it's argued that motion pictures and the Visual are in fact crucial to modernization. READ MORE