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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Robinson, Linda Leyden. "Re-Embodied Vision: The Cultural Shift from Discursive to Figural," American Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa, August 1998.
“Re-Embodied Vision” is a feminist inquiry into how, as American cultural practices shift from an emphasis on language to one on image, subjectivity is reconfigured. My thesis contends that changes in thought on cultural production correspond to changes in the complex vision/image/subjectivity matrix. This is a relational interrogation which reveals shift in focus through metacriticism. By comparing analyses of film and photography in the 1930s to contemporary critiques and by offering case studies of filmmaker Dorothy Arzner and documentary photographer Dorthea Lange, I present a discussion on the “pictorial turn.” Interdisciplinary in content and feminist in method, this dissertation articulates a fundamental shift in the way American culture represents itself.
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