Homay King: 2 books
Virtual Memory
Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film, video, and time-based contemporary art. Detaching the virtual from its contemporary associations with...
Lost in Translation
Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather...