The Human Shutter

The Human ShutterThe book celebrates art and artists, philosophers, and scientists inspired by stereoscopic vision. The origin of photographic cinema is reframed based on a multitude of visual examples. Based on what happens after light appears on the retina, the idea of the stereoscope as a tool of critical inquiry is also explored. 76 b&w, 17 col. illus. Read the Brooklyn Rail interview with the author, Robert L. Bowen.

Building on historical analysis

Highly interactive

an aesthetic emblem and a symbol of past technologies

The ten papers included in this volume

Armando Brasini

The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in southeastern and central European cities became cinema makers

Christian missions

With new individual essays on each of Kunzru’s novels as well as his short fiction and creative non-fiction

the book traces archaeological discourse in discussions about sexuality

Maia Dolphin-Krute argues that the illusive sick body is often made invisible – a ghost – because it does not always fit society's definition of disability

and Internet culture

Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features