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Record Nr.

UNINA9910735901403321

Autore

Fischer Michael M. J. <1946->

Titolo

At the Pivot of East and West : Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts / / Michael M. J. Fischer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, North Carolina : , : Duke University Press, , 2023

ISBN

1-4780-9375-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 356 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Experimental futures.

Soggetti

Social change in literature

Social change in motion pictures

Arts and society - Southeast Asia

Anthropology and the arts - Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian literature - History and criticism

Documentary mass media and the arts - Southeast Asia

Documentary films - Southeast Asia - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Oiled hinges : sounds and silences in documentary films of social change -- Filmic stutter, taped counter-truths, and musical sutures : knots of recovery -- White ink, family systems, forests of illusion, and aging : knots of passion -- Miniatures : small kindnesses across poisonous knowledges -- Blue widow with green stripes : pivots in widening horizons -- Filmic obsessive repetitions, dissociations, and power relations -- Meritocracy blues, chimeras, and analytic monsters -- Afterword: Portals to the future : MRT stations, universities, and the peopling of technologies -- Exergue: Bangarra Dance Company and the historical hinge in Australia.

Sommario/riassunto

"At the Pivot of East and West is the companion volume to Michael M. J. Fischer's Probing Arts and Emergent Futures. In this book, Fischer continues his investigation into artistic practices with a focus on documentary films and novels, and introduces three analytics to do so: pivots, knots, and hinges. For Fischer, "pivots" signals geopolitical spaces, like art markets and commissions, as places to think with; "knots" speak to feminist and intercultural knots in women-authored



novels; and "hinges" as a counterpoint to the notion of an event, a persistent slow change that only retrospectively seems dramatic and that remains unfinished. At the Pivot of East and West draws widely from global arts with a focus on art from Singapore and Southeast Asia"--