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Seeing Things

Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism

By: Mason Kamana Allred

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Seeing Things

Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism

By: Mason Kamana Allred

In this theoretically rich work, Mason Kamana Allred unearths the ways Mormons have employed a wide range of technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences that contribute to the growth of their religious systems of meaning. Drawing on methods from cultural history, media studies, and religious studies, Allred focuses specifically on technologies of vision that have shaped Mormonism as a culture of seeing. These technologies, he argues, were as essential to the making of Mormonism as the humans who received, interpreted, and practiced their faith. While Mormons' uses of television and the internet are recent examples of the tradition's use of visual technology, Allred excavates older practices and technologies for negotiating the spirit, such as panorama displays and magic lantern shows. Fusing media theory with feminist new materialism, he employs media archaeology to examine Mormons' ways of performing distinctions, beholding as a way to engender radical visions, and standardizing vision to effect assimilation. Allred's analysis reveals Mormonism as always materially mediated and argues that religious history is likewise inherently entangled with media.

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Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism

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Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity

Cultural Memory and the Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch

By: Mason Kamana Allred

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Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity

Cultural Memory and the Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch

By: Mason Kamana Allred

In its retrieval and (re)construction, the past has become interwoven with the images and structure of cinema. Not only have mass media—especially film and television—shaped the content of memories and histories, but they have also shaped their very form. Combining historicization with close readings of German director Ernst Lubitsch's historical films, this book focuses on an early turning point in this development, exploring how the medium of film shaped modern historical experience and understanding—how it moved embodied audiences through moving images.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351858483

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