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" Post-produced cultures : "
Fusari, Massimiliano
Gleave, Robert
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Latin Dissertation
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807253
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TLets615551
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Fusari, Massimiliano
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Post-produced cultures :\ Fusari, MassimilianoGleave, Robert
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University of Exeter
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2013
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2013
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Thesis (Ph.D.)
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The present work explores my practice as a photojournalist researching anthropological issues in the Muslim world. I use the Hawzas, the Muslim Shi’a seminaries, as my case study to invite a visually informed approach to the human sciences, and promote a practical usage of aesthetics. Because of the dramatic disproportion between socio-cultural relevance and under-representation, the Hawzas offer an extremely valuable opportunity to research issues of Orientalism and Orientalist visual archives. By questioning my own fieldwork practice alongside the visual signification of the Hawzas, I reconnect the pre-production to the post-production phase, and encompass within it a shared outlook issues of both the Real and the represented. I posit the photograph within wider multimedia and multi-audience practices as a stand-alone communicative device and part of a montage to assess its communicative features in relation to the verbal as a caption, and to the visual, in montage. Through this, I distinguish a phenomenological framework of analysis to urge a radical rethinking of personal and social agencies, and suggest the notion of communicative hubs for today’s globalised identities. I evince the extent to which the digital is reshaping forms of visual-led and multimedia production, knowledge distribution and media consumption to finally contextualise the photograph as ‘semantics without ontology.’ I conclude by advocating my ideas of the ‘Meta- Image’ and ‘Public Cultures 2.0’ as two integrated formats for visual-led communication, digital media practice, social engagement and public impact as specifically addressing Muslim cultures.
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Digital Cultures; Visual Cultures; Post-Production; Islam; Hawza; Shi'a; Photography; Photojournalism; Practice-derived PhD; Anthropology of Islam; Aesthetics; Orientalism; Ethnography; Fieldwork; Multimedia Representation; Media Cultures; Montage; Phenomenology; Communication
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Gleave, Robert
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University of Exeter
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