Visual Cultures and Critical Theory

Name: Visual Cultures and Critical Theory
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ISBN: 9780340807484

ISBN-10: 0340807482

ISBN-13: 9780340807484

Edition: 2003

Authors: Patrick Fuery, Kelli Wagner, Kelli Fuery, Kelli Fuery

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We live in a world of the image. In many ways images have replaced words as the defining aspect of cultural identity, while at the same time they have become part of our global culture. The rapidly developing discipline of visual cultural studies has become the key area for examining the issues of the image. Visual Cultures and Critical Theory provides students with a clear guide for understanding ideas of critical theory through the visual. Taking up a range of themes such as spectatorship, pleasure, power, doubles, hallucination, and the frame, the book explains them within the context of the theoretical developments in psychoanalysis, cultural theory, postmodernism, Queer theory, gender…

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List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 7/31/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.33" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Investing in Power and the Body: Foucault and the Visual



Seeing the Self in the Baroque Mirror: Lacan and the Visual



Transgression, Abjection, and the body: Kristeva and the Visual



From Parasitology to Spectres: Derrida and the Visual



Spectator, Culture, Image: Barthes and the Visual



Invisibility and Hallucination: The State of the Image in the Postmodern World