Beschreibung:
"Today, hardly anything moves as fast across the globe as images and media. This fact opens new avenues to explore social and cultural change, but also poses new theoretical challenges of how to grasp and better understand these changes and flows. Moreover, such movements across geophysical and cultural borders have a historical depth that enables us to explore globalisation and localisation in new ways. Transculturality is still a relatively new field of research in the Humanities through which we sharpen our competence and 'literacy' to come to terms with the complexity of globalised cultures. This volume ventures into new domains of research on the transculturality of images and addresses the need to develop new or modify established often ethno- and Eurocentric interpretations of what happens when images travel. It does so by bringing together cutting-edge research from fields such as art history, cultural anthropology, colonial history, Islamic studies, religious studies and literary criticism"--Provided by publisher
Part I. Introduction. Introduction: transcultural turbulences: towards a multi-sited reading of image flows / Christiane Brosius and Roland Wenzlhuemer -- Part II. Visual cosmopolitanism. Love in the age of valentine and pink underwear: media and politics of intimacy in South Asia / Christiane Brosius -- Shifting identities and cosmopolitan machineries: a new world imagined at the 1919 Peace Conference in Paris / Madeleine Herren -- "The 99": Islamic superheroes: a new species? / Susanne Enderwitz -- Guides to a global paradise: Shanghai entertainment park newspapers and the invention of Chinese urban leisure / Catherine Yeh -- The art of cosmopolitanism: visual potentialities in Ma Jun, Tomokazu Matsuyama, David Diao, and Patty Chang / Alexandra Chang -- Part III. Circulating images. Pictorial encounter: iconoclasm and syncretism on India's western coast / Alexander Henn -- Kannon, Guanyin, Virgin Mary: early modern discourses on alterity, religion and images / Eva Zhang -- The work of goddesses in the age of mass reproduction / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- Pushpamala N. and the 'art' of cinephilia in India / Ajay Sinha -- The changing image of Sinhalese healing rituals: performing identity in the context of transculturality / Eva Ambos -- An exotic self? Tracing cultural flows of Western nudes in Pei-yang Pictorial News (1926-1933) / Sun Liying