Hold that pose: visual culture in the late-nineteenth-century Spanish periodical

2008 ◽  
Vol 46 (04) ◽  
pp. 46-1953-46-1953
Queer Timing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 101-121
Author(s):  
Susan Potter

This chapter focuses on an expanded visual archive that is emblematic of the intermediality of early cinema: the electric light dance performances of late-nineteenth-century celebrity Loïe Fuller and their early film copies. The chapter argues that Fuller’s on-stage performances, and the cinematic remediations that imitated her disembodied modes of performance, represent a specific response to, and transformation of, conditions of vision, practices of looking, and modes of voyeurism that had until recently been cultural norms for women. Fuller’s visual archive suggests how the developing sexual subjectivities of female spectators were already bound up in proto-cinematic forms of spectatorship that turned on the visual pleasures of the moving female body. Appropriating and reorienting the sexuality effects of late-nineteenth-century visual culture, Fuller’s performances sustained a paradoxically disembodied and depersonalized homoerotic mode of spectatorship.


2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-158
Author(s):  
Stacey Johnson

ABSTRACT The popularity of 8mm, home movie making swelled to notable proportions in the postwar period and throughout the 1950s, at which point 8mm movie cameras were in their widest, popular use in North American families. This paper explores the rise to ubiquity of postwar home movie production by tracing its cultural precedent to the mass-popularization of photography in the late-nineteenth century, and the ways in which a producing and consuming visual culture established itself in the family.


2002 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).


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