Acknowledgments
Foreword

1 Theories of Vision
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Gaze within a Brief History of Theories of Vision
1.2.1 Introductory Remarks
1.2.2 A Review of the Current State of Research
1.2.3 A Historical Overview of Vision
1.2.4 A Short History of the Gaze according to Ivan Illich
1.2.5 Ancient Theories of Vision up until Kepler
1.2.6 The Window of Renaissance
1.2.7 Crary's Prehistory of Contemporary Vision

2 Categories of Vision
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 A Dialogical Framework
2.1.2 Vision and Visuality
2.2 Active and Passive Vision
2.2.1 From Camcorder to Erectile Pupilla
2.2.2 Entering the Film's Self
2.3 Tactile Visuality
2.3.1 To Touch or Not to Touch
2.3.2 Between a Metaphorical and a Literal Touch
2.3.3 Mimetic Visuality: Epistemological Implications
2.4 Blind Vision
2.4.1 Inner and Outer Vision
2.4.2 Further Insights of Blind Vision
2.5 A Summary of the Categories

3 Film Analysis
3.1 Outline
3.2 Films, Blindness, and the Blind
3.3 Introductory Analyses of Films in Relation to Vision and Blindness
3.3.1 LE SCAPHANDRE and the POV
3.3.2 Sensation Enhancers
3.3.3 Visual Prosthesis
3.3.4 Documentary Film and the Reality of Seeing Reality
3.4 JANELA DA ALMA
3.4.1 Introducing JANELA DA ALMA
3.4.2 A Brazilian Window
3.4.3 The Opening Sequence
3.4.4 Looking at the Reel
3.4.5 Representing Views and Gazes
3.4.6 Good Bokeh, Bad Bokeh
3.4.7 Window, Sound, and Soul
3.4.8 The Blind Photographer
3.4.9 Seeing with Glasses
4 Discussion and Conclusions
4.1 Toward an Understanding of Filmmaking as a Bridge
4.2 Filmmaking as a Remnant of the Pre-Keplerian Gaze
4.3 A Substitute for the Invisible
4.4 Trans-seeing Reality

5 Final Words
Works Cited

Filtros