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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography in Reflections on Photography as mentioned in this paper, examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death.Abstract:
Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.read more
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Whispers of norbury: sir arthur conan doyle and the modernist crisis of racial (un) detection
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the ''Superman'' detective Sherlock Holmes, and his anxieties of race detection, and argue that the emergence of the detective fiction genre is in direct response to the threat of racial passing.
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Where Is the "Audience?": Discerning the (Impossible) Subject:
TL;DR: The authors trace how the problem of audience has been reconsidered in recent debates in cultural studies, with particular attention paid to the question of the possibility and impossibility of theorizing and examining the audience's experience and subjectivity.
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What's wrong with this picture?
Marianne Hirsch,Leo Spitzer +1 more
TL;DR: The authors consider the role of archival photographs in the work of historians, artists and writers of the generation after the Holocaust and argue that such ambiguous evidence may be a resource for historians seeking to grasp and transmit the past's emotional truth.