Building upon work in visual studies and art history on symbolic perspective, film studies on structures of looking, and linguistic anthropology on entextualization and ideology, this article explores the semiotics of vision/visibility and perspective. In particular, I focus on ethnographic data from the cinema of Tamil Nadu, India, wherein (being seen) seeing a film image and being seen in a film image emerge as pragmatically problematic for those party to the image. In doing so, the article asks: what does it mean and do to see and be seen by, look away from and be effaced by the film image and, further, see or be seen vis-à-vis the above (seeing someone being seen in a film image, be seen looking away, etc.)?

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看、被看和透视符号学

基于符号视角的视觉研究和艺术史、观看结构的电影研究以及语境化和意识形态的语言人类学，本文探讨了视觉/可见性和视角的符号学。特别是，我关注来自印度泰米尔纳德邦电影院的民族志数据，其中（被观看）观看电影图像和在电影图像中被观看对于图像的参与方来说是实用的问题。在这样做的过程中，文章问：看到和被看到，远离电影图像并被电影图像抹去，以及进一步看到或被看到，这意味着什么？相对于上述（看到某人在电影图像中被看到，被看到正在看向别处等）？