"Blindness, or vision loss, is a major medical concern that has also drawn the attention of artists, writers, musicians, mythologists, filmmakers, religions, philosophers and others. Covering everything from pop culture to high culture, this text is an illuminating anthology of essays examining various representations of blindness. Comprehensive in scope, this collection of essays analyzes depictions and explorations of blindness in many pieces of media. Essays explore blindness in horror films, science fiction literature, high art, superhero fiction, Jewish and indigenous traditions, music…mehr
"Blindness, or vision loss, is a major medical concern that has also drawn the attention of artists, writers, musicians, mythologists, filmmakers, religions, philosophers and others. Covering everything from pop culture to high culture, this text is an illuminating anthology of essays examining various representations of blindness. Comprehensive in scope, this collection of essays analyzes depictions and explorations of blindness in many pieces of media. Essays explore blindness in horror films, science fiction literature, high art, superhero fiction, Jewish and indigenous traditions, music and more. This book aims to show how a world of darkness can hold so much light"--
Sharon Packer, M.D., is a New York City psychiatrist and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Table of Contents Preface Sharon Packer, M.D. Introduction Sharon Packer, M.D. Sound Over Sight: Depicting Blindness in Horror Films (From a Sound Specialist's Perspective) Jeffrey Bullins A Blind Boyhood: Reflections by a Poetry Professor Reja-e Busailah Blindness in Science Fiction: From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Star Trek's La Forge-and Much More Jason W. Ellis Looking at the Unseeing: Blindness in the History of Carlos Espí Forcén Visual Loss in Cinema: A Psychiatrist's Viewpoint Fernando Espí Forcén Unsighted Superheroes: Insights from Comics, Films and Jaq Greenspon Pastoral Counseling and Impending Blindness: Vision Loss and a Quest for Meaning Curtis W. Hart Blinded on the Battlefield: True Superhero Stories of Mikhail Margolin and Al Schmid George Higham Blindness in the Jewish Tradition: From Written Text to Oral Law to Contemporary Medical Practice Jerome M. Karp and Howard L. Forman Native Stories About Vision and Impairment: Western Medicine Meets Aboriginal Mythos Andrew J. McLean Blind African American Musicians: Insights from a Social Psychiatrist H. Steven Moffic Idioms and Ideas: Meanings and Metaphors Sharon Packer, M.D. Through the Eye(s) of Tiresias: From Thebes and Beyond Caleb Puckett "Close your eyes and see": Blindness and Literature Eric Sandberg Blindness as Holocaust Metaphor: Elie Wiesel's A Beggar in Jerusalem and The Forgotten Eric J. Sterling In Darkness and Light: The Meanings of Blindness in the West Brenda S. Gardenour Walter Out of Sight: Body and Building from Medical Architecture to Post-Modern Haptic Space Brenda S. Gardenour Walter Filmography Bibliography About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Preface Sharon Packer, M.D. Introduction Sharon Packer, M.D. Sound Over Sight: Depicting Blindness in Horror Films (From a Sound Specialist's Perspective) Jeffrey Bullins A Blind Boyhood: Reflections by a Poetry Professor Reja-e Busailah Blindness in Science Fiction: From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Star Trek's La Forge-and Much More Jason W. Ellis Looking at the Unseeing: Blindness in the History of Carlos Espí Forcén Visual Loss in Cinema: A Psychiatrist's Viewpoint Fernando Espí Forcén Unsighted Superheroes: Insights from Comics, Films and Jaq Greenspon Pastoral Counseling and Impending Blindness: Vision Loss and a Quest for Meaning Curtis W. Hart Blinded on the Battlefield: True Superhero Stories of Mikhail Margolin and Al Schmid George Higham Blindness in the Jewish Tradition: From Written Text to Oral Law to Contemporary Medical Practice Jerome M. Karp and Howard L. Forman Native Stories About Vision and Impairment: Western Medicine Meets Aboriginal Mythos Andrew J. McLean Blind African American Musicians: Insights from a Social Psychiatrist H. Steven Moffic Idioms and Ideas: Meanings and Metaphors Sharon Packer, M.D. Through the Eye(s) of Tiresias: From Thebes and Beyond Caleb Puckett "Close your eyes and see": Blindness and Literature Eric Sandberg Blindness as Holocaust Metaphor: Elie Wiesel's A Beggar in Jerusalem and The Forgotten Eric J. Sterling In Darkness and Light: The Meanings of Blindness in the West Brenda S. Gardenour Walter Out of Sight: Body and Building from Medical Architecture to Post-Modern Haptic Space Brenda S. Gardenour Walter Filmography Bibliography About the Contributors Index
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