1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782209503321

Autore

Elkins James <1955->

Titolo

How to use your eyes [[electronic resource] /] / James Elkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

0-203-94341-4

1-281-70709-0

1-136-92079-X

1-281-09452-8

1-136-92078-1

0-415-99363-6

0-415-95462-2

9786611094522

0-203-84453-X

1-135-96160-3

1-135-96161-1

9786611707095

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

152.14

153.7

612.8/4

Soggetti

Vision

Attention

Visual discrimination

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-253).

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface IX; Preface; 1 how to look at a postage stamp; 2 how to look at a culvert; 3 how to look at an oil painting; 4 how to look at pavement; 5 how to look at an X ray; 6 how to look at linear B; 7 how to look at chinese and japanese script; 8 how to look at egyptian hieroglyphs; 9 how to look at egyptian scarabs; 10 how to look at an engineering drawing; 11 how to look at a rebus; 12 how to look at mandalas; 13 how to look at perspective pictures; 14



how to look at an alchemical emblem; 15 how to look at special effects; 16 how to look at the periodic table

17 how to look at a map18 how to look at a shoulder; 19 how to look at a face; 20 how to look at a fingerprint; 21 how to look at grass; 22 how to look at a twig; 23 how to look at sand; 24 how to look at moths' wings; 25 how to look at halos; 26 how to look at sunsets; 27 how to look at color; 28 how to look at the night; 29 how to look at mirages; 30 how to look at a crystal; 31 how to look at the inside of your eye; 32 how to look at nothing; POSTSCRIPT: how do we look to a scallop?; FOR FURTHER READING; PHOTO CREDITS

Sommario/riassunto

James Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at--and maybe to see for the first time--the world around us, with breathtaking results. Here are the common artifacts of life, often misunderstood and largely ignored, brought into striking focus. With the discerning eye of a painter and the zeal of a detective, Elkins explores complicated things like mandalas, the periodic table, or a hieroglyph, remaking the world into a treasure box of observations--eccentric, ordinary, marvelous.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782221703321

Autore

Feasey Rebecca

Titolo

Masculinity and popular television [[electronic resource] /] / Rebecca Feasey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-7486-5118-7

1-281-94774-1

9786611947743

0-7486-3179-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Classificazione

AP 35160

Disciplina

791.43

791.45653

Soggetti

Masculinity in popular culture

Men on television

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Copyright; Contents; 1. Introduction: theorising masculinities on the small screen; 2. Soap opera: the male role in the women's genre; 3. Situation comedy: homosexuality and male camaraderie; 4. Animation: masculinity in the nuclear family; 5. Teen programming: isolation, alienation and emerging manhood; 6. Science fiction and fantasy television: challenging dominant gender roles; 7. Hospital drama: reassurance, anxiety and the doctor-hero; 8. Police and crime drama: investigating male authority; 9. Sports: media events and masculine discourse

10. Reality television: ordinariness, exhibitionism and emotional intelligence11. Lifestyle: domestic labour and leisure activities; 12. Advertising: social life, social standing and sex; 13. Conclusion: the future of masculinity on television; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television genres. The volume looks at the depiction of public masculinity in the soap opera, homosexuality in the situation comedy, the portrayal of fatherhood in prime-time animation, emerging manhood in the supernatural teen text, alternative gender roles in science fiction, male authority in the police series, masculine anxieties in the hospital drama, violence and aggression in sports coverage, ordinariness and emotional connectedness in the