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Blank Faces: Introduction to the Special Issue

Barker, Meghanne; (2019) Blank Faces: Introduction to the Special Issue. Semiotic Review , 7 pp. 1-11. Green open access

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Abstract

The purpose of this special issue is to explore other means and results of making faces blank. We first explored these questions with a panel on the semiotics of “Blank Faces” at the 2016 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which included contributions from Silvio, Nozawa, and others. In exploring the blank face, we aim to illuminate the expectations that people have for their own faces or the ones they meet, even if those expectations so frequently fall short of the demands placed on them. This special issue includes original research articles on topics such as the editing of portraits for match-making purposes (Alpert), the range of human capacities to recognize and remember faces (Pearl), the alignment of human faces with characterological types (Occhi), and the proliferation of a face in urban landscapes to the effect that she is seemingly ubiquitous, and yet never meeting the viewer’s gaze (Manning). As such, this issue is concerned with the relationship between the face as a locus of interaction in everyday life and the face as an image that lends itself to typification, along with the layered processes of semiosis and the social relationships produced through encounters with faces.

Type: Article
Title: Blank Faces: Introduction to the Special Issue
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/articl...
Language: English
Additional information: © Semiotic Review. 0riginal content in this article is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148077
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