They installed them into the very marrow of my being, using music, images, rites and a sense of fear that if I wavered from the true path, grave suffering would be mine.
Without access to a major studio, without its paraphernalia or its closed halls, its personnel or its incantations, the New Wave filmmakers reproduced its devotions in their own plein-air or domestic image-rites.
How was this knowledge mediated through text, image, and rite?
The last five articles concerned the roles of images, saints, rites and ceremonies, and purgatory, and they reflected the views of the traditionalists.
As President Trump continues to remake the Republican Party in his image, calls for last rites to be given to American conservatism are not just premature — they're entirely wrong.
One sepia image shows the Victorian rite of passage known as "breeching".
Away from her, the film drifts and drags, and some of the image-making is rote: hands playing dolphin out of moving car windows, cascading hair on a summer's day, and I could have done without the dead plants in the office of the school counselor, as if to spell out her lack of green fingers (would you trust this woman with your psychological development?).
Every 12 years, in one of the greatest Jain rites, the entire image is ceremonially bathed in curd, milk, and ghee before enormous crowds of people.
It has no formal organizational structure nor doctrinal formulation but is centred in the veneration of small roadside images and in the agricultural rites of rural families.
Crowdsourced labor has successfully tackled a variety of rote tasks like image tagging and transcription, but has difficulty accomplishing complex tasks.
