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Reading Through the Body.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, Sport, & Culture.
- Sign language.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Symbolism.
- Anthropological linguistics.
- Local Subjects:
- Arts, Sport, & Culture.
- Sign language.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Symbolism.
- Anthropological linguistics.
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (8 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Moving Thought - Film+Philosophy, [date of publication not identified]
- Language Note:
- In German.
- In English.
- In Sign Language.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- What happens if a philosophical text is mirrored in the world of sign language? What happens if thoughts and signs are translated into moving pictures? "Reading Through the Body" is a short ethnographic documentary showing how a woman who is deaf tries to comprehend and embody a text by Friedrich Nietzsche in an experimental setting.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed October 16, 2020).
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