Transmission Image ─ Visual Translation and Cultural Agency

Noting transmission's connotations of intention as well as distance traversing, Mersmann (non-Western and European art, Jacobs U. Bremen) and Schneider (film studies, Freie U. Berlin) introduce 13 multidisciplinary essays that examine the agenda transpiring, intercultural transmitting, and transmigrating roles of media images. European scholars treat images as carriers of religious, cultural, political, and scientific values, identities, and practices. Discussions span the role of images in anatomical atlases historically, the biases of ethnographic images, juxtaposition of transcultural images in Bollywood films, and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of image. Multi media images are featured. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Birgit Mersmann is professor of Non-Western and European Art at the Jacobs University Bremen, and Alexandra Schneider lecturer at the Film Studies Department of Free University Berlin. Alexandra Schneider is Lecturer at the Film Studies Department of the Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany. She has published a book on home movies (Die Stars sind wir. Marburg: Schuren, 2004) and co-edited several books, including: Flugbilder-Kinobilder vom Fliegen. Muenster: Lit Verlag (2008, forthcoming) and Import-Export. India. Germany. Austria. Berlin: Parthas (2005). Her work has been published in Visual Anthropology, Film History and Montage/av. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Nancy Adajania, Heike Behrend, Hans Belting, Peter J. Braunlein, Markus Buschhaus, Iris Darmann, Martin Gieselmann, Simone Griessmayer, Anne von der Heiden, Asko Lehmuskallio, Birgit Mersmann, and Beat Wyss.