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Seeing Visual Culture, (Visual Media = History of mans attempt to control…

- - - - Limits of assimilation
      - If world views are incompatible (stone v sky)
      - Is assimilation the only option with incompatible world views.
      - Chooses independence over assimilation.
      - Disabled character is the sighted one.
      - Social construction of what we deem as normal.
      - THIS IS A STORY ABOUT NOT SEEING
      - Story about not constructing a world that is based on sight.
      - Community not conditioned by such language
    - - Pays attention to extreme invisibility of Black women.
        
        Due to societal oppression.
        
        Unpacks this in brief vignettes.
        
        Mapping anger that isn’t there (why do you look a way you don’t look).
        
        MANDATE OF SMILING TOTALLY GENDERED (resting bitch face).
        
        easily mistaken for someone else, can be based on race, gender, one feature, sexuality.
        
        It is not your fault if you get misnamed
        
        The problem is not taking offense, the problem is the coworker.
        
        “The fact that you are invisible is your fault”
        
        “Suffer from the condition of being addressable”
        
        “Hyper visible”
      - As the color darkens you stop paying attention, darker color, fades into invisibility, used by Rankins in Citizen.
    - - ”Egoless Bliss”
      - Stillness
      - Lifeless/Hostile
      - Fire/Smoke Danger
      - Mood/Collective Energy
      - Shimmer
  - - - Woman wearing same fabric, still vibrant and bright, but uniform.
        
        Bride in white against other vibrant outfits. This makes her stand out.
        
        Different textures and costuming to differentiate character.
        
        No natural light, Interior scene.
        
        La La Land vs This Scene, both celebrations, yet presented completely differently
        
        Lots of cuts, from wide shots to tight shots, and solo shots
        
        Very purposeful use of color.
        
        Shifts to blue.
        
        Creates sense of intimacy.
        
        Mother of George uses the visual effect of shine and glow, has something to do with how this movie is constructing the protagonist. Shine is more evenly distributed in this movie.
- - - - How has the existence color changed our perception?
        
        How can we use the idea of light and illumination to showcase the human experience?
        
        How does the clor black and/ or black art and the black experience affect our impression of the visual world?
        
        The Black Experience and Being Unseen
        
        What is it like to be unseen in a visual world?