Images That Move is concerned with how images take place in wider
worlds: how they move around, via processes of transmission and
uptake, but, equally importantly, how they move their audiences
affectively. Images play a significant part in projects of "poetic
world-making" and political transformation. They participate in the
production of commensuration or of incommensurability, enact
moments of prophecy or exposure, and attract or repel spectators'
attention. Images move, then, but not just as they wish, and any
examination of images in motion must also recognise the blockages
and breakdowns that prevent their movement as well as the
enframings or "stickinesses" that trap them in particular places,
prevent them from reaching others, or hedge their arrival in
specific ways. The contributors explore topics ranging from high
art to mass media, religious iconography to pornography, and
popular photography to political cartoons in a range of contexts
and media including photography in early twentieth century China,
art and literature in contemporary South Africa, upscale real
estate development in India, occult media images and the aesthetic
of appearance in urban Indonesia, and film censorship in Nigeria.
All of these instances of the visual continuum require different
ways of highlighting and addressing the problematics of images in
motion. Images That Move traces some of the tangled paths of
images' travels and returns, unfolding their effects and
aftereffects and scanning the diverse and variable publics-fixed or
ephemeral, situated or dispersed-that these moving images call into
being. Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Christiane Brosius, Steven
C. Caton, Finbarr Barry Flood, Brian Larkin, Oliver Moore, Rosalind
C. Morris, Christopher Pinney, Patricia Spyer, Mary Margaret
Steedly
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