Lenses on Blindness : Essays on Vision Loss in Media, Culture, Religion and Experience / Sharon Packer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Packer, Sharon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blindness--Social aspects.

Blindness.

Blind in motion pictures.

Blind in art.

Blind in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Preface

Introduction

Sound Over Sight: Depicting Blindness in Horror Films (From a Sound Specialist's Perspective)

A Blind Boyhood: Reflections by a Poetry Professor

Blindness in Science Fiction: From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Star Trek's La Forge-and Much More

Looking at the Unseeing: Blindness in the History of Art

Visual Loss in Cinema: A Psychiatrist's Viewpoint

Unsighted Superheroes: Insights from Comics, Films and TV

Pastoral Counseling and Impending Blindness: Vision Loss and a Quest for Meaning

Blinded on the Battlefield: True Superhero Stories of Mikhail Margolin and Al Schmid

Blindness in the Jewish Tradition: From Written Text to Oral Law to Contemporary Medical Practice

Native Stories About Vision and Impairment: Western Medicine Meets Aboriginal Mythos

Blind African American Musicians: Insights from a Social Psychiatrist

Idioms and Ideas: Meanings and Metaphors

Through the Eye(s) of Tiresias: From Thebes and Beyond

"Close your eyes and see": Blindness and Literature

Blindness as Holocaust Metaphor: Elie Wiesel's A Beggar in Jerusalem and The Forgotten

In Darkness and Light: The Meanings of Blindness in the West

Out of Sight: Body and Building from Medical Architecture to ­Post-Modern Haptic Space

Filmography

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Packer, Sharon Lenses on Blindness

ISBN:

9781476647319