Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Fields of Vision is a path-breaking collection that inquires into the power (and limits) of film and photography to make sense of ourselves and others. As critics, social scientists, filmmakers, and literary scholars, the contributors converge on the issues of representation and the construction of visual meaning across cultures.From the dismembered bodies of horror film to the exotic bodies of ethnographic film and the gorgeous bodies of romantic cinema, Fields of Vision moves through eras, genres, and societies. Always asking how images work to produce meaning, the essays address the way the "real" on film creates fantasy, news, as well as "science," and considers this problematic process as cultural boundaries are crossed. One essay discusses the effects of Hollywood's high-capital, world-wide commercial hegemony on local and non-Western cinemas, while another explores the response of indigenous people in central Australia to the forces of mass media and video. Other essays uncover the work of the unconscious in cinema, the shaping of "female spectatorship" by the "women's film" genre of the 1920s, and the effects of the personal and subjective in documentary films and the photographs of war reportage.In illuminating dark, elided, or wilfully neglected areas of representation, these essays uncover new fields of vision.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Fields of Vision is a path-breaking collection that inquires i

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1 An Introductory Essay Leslie Devereaux THEMES 2 The National Paul Willemen 3 The Modernist Sensibility in Recent Ethnographic Writing and the Cinematic Metaphor of Montage George E. Marcus 4 Experience, Re-presentation, and Film Leslie Devereaux CASE STUDIES: PHOTOGRAPHY 5 Photography and Film: Figures in/of History Anne-Marie Willis 6 Modernism and the Photographic Representation of War and Destruction Bernd Hiippauf CASE STUDIES: FILM 7 Horror and the Carnivalesque: The Body-monstrous Barbara Creed 8 Barrymore, the Body, and Bliss: Issues of Male Representation and Female Spectatorship in the 1920s Gaylyn Studlar 9 Narrative, Sound, and Film: Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun Roger Hillman 10 Novel into Film: The Name of the Rose Gino Moliterno THE SUBJECT(IVE) VOICE 11 The Subjective Voice in Ethnographic Film David MacDougall 12 Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media, Ethnographic Film, and the Production of ldentity Faye Ginsburg 13 The Pressure of the Unconscious upon the Image: The Subjective Voice in Documentary Susan Dermody 14 Robert Gardner's Rivers of Sand: Toward a Reappraisal Peter Loizos A LAST WORD 15 Cultures, Disciplines, Cinemas Leslie Devereaux CONTRIBUTORS INDEX