Visual Culture The Reader

Name: Visual Culture The Reader
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ISBN: 9780761962489

ISBN-10: 0761962484

ISBN-13: 9780761962489

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jessica Evans, Stuart Hall

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`This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its major strength is its insistence on the importance of three central aspects of the study of visual culture: the sign, the institution and the viewing subject. It will provide readers, teachers and students with an essential text in visual and cultural studies' - Janet Wolff, University of RochesterVisual Culture provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines, including four editorial essays which place the readings in their historical and theoretical context. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 7/6/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English



What is Visual Culture?




Cultures of the Visual


Introduction




Rhetorics of the Image


The Natural Attitude



Rhetoric of the Image



Art, Common Sense and Photography



Myth Today




Techniques of the Visible


Panopticism



The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction



The Image-World



Separation Perfected



The Bottom Line on Planet One



Squaring up to The Face



Regulating Photographic Meanings


Introduction




Theorizing Photography


On the Institutions of Photography



The Social Definition of Photography



Reading an Archive



Photography between Labour and Capital


Photography's Discursive Spaces




Institutions and Practices in Photography


The Museum's Old, the Library's New Subject



Living with Contradictions



Critical Practices in the Age of Supply-Side Aesthetics


Evidence, Truth and Order and A Means of Surveillance



Feeble Monsters



Making Up Disabled People


Marketing Mass Photography




Looking and Subjectivity


Introduction




Theoretical Perspectives


Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses



Fetishism



The Scoptophilic Instinct and Identification



The Subject



Fantasia



The Other Question



The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse



Gendering the Gaze


Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema



Desperately Seeking Difference



White Privilege and Looking Relations



Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory


Sexuality in the Field of Vision




'Seeing' Racial Difference


The Fact of Blackness



Alexander von Humboldt and the Reinvention of America



Reading Racial Fetishism



The Photographs of Robbert Mapplethorpe


Dark Continents



Epistemologies of Racial and Sexual Difference in Psycholanalysis and the Cinema


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