Title At the pivot of East and West : ethnographic, literary, and filmic arts / Michael M. J. Fischer

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 356 pages) : illustrations Series Experimental futures Experimental futures. Contents 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Anthropology and the arts -- Southeast Asia Documentary mass media and the arts -- Southeast Asia Arts and society -- Southeast Asia Documentary films -- Southeast Asia -- History and criticism Southeast Asian literature -- History and criticism Social change in motion pictures. Social change in literature. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature. Anthropology and the arts Arts and society Documentary films Documentary mass media and the arts Social change in literature Social change in motion pictures Southeast Asian literature Southeast Asia Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2022043418 ISBN 9781478024460 1478024461 9781478093756 1478093757

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