| Description |
xviii, 478 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Culture, media, and identities.
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| Contents |
What is visual culture? / Jessica Evans & Stuart Hall -- Part I: Cultures of the visual. Introduction / Jessica Evans. A: Rhetorics of the image. 1. The natural attitude / Norman Bryson -- 2. Rhetoric of the image / Roland Barthes -- 3. Art, common sense and photography / Victor Burgin -- 4. Myth today / Roland Barthes -- B: Techniques of the visible. 5. Panopticism / Michel Foucault -- 6. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin -- 7. The image-world / Susan Sontag -- 8. Separation perfected / Guy Debord -- 9. The bottom line on planet one: squaring up to The face / Dick Hebdige -- Part II: Regulating photographic meanings. Introduction / Jessica Evans. C: Theorizing photography. 10. On the institutions of photography / Simon Watney -- 11. The social definition of photography / Pierre Bourdieu -- 12. Reading an archive: photography between labour and capital / Allan Sekula -- 13. Photography's discursive spaces / Rosalind Krauss -- D: Institutions and practices in photography. 14. The museum's old, the library's new subject / Douglas Crimp -- 15. Living with contradictions: critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- 16. Evidence, truth and order: a means of surveillance / John Tagg -- 17. Feeble monsters: making up disabled people / Jessica Evans -- 18. Marketing mass photography / Don Slater -- Part III: Looking and subjectivity. Introduction / Stuart Hall. E: Theoretical perspectives. 19. Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (notes toward an investigation) / Louis Althusser -- 20. Fetishism / Sigmund Freud -- 21. The scoptophilic instinct and identification / Otto Fenichel -- 22. The subject / Kaja Silverman -- 23. Fantasia / Elizabeth Cowie -- 24. The other question: the stereotype and colonial discourse -- F: Gendering the gaze. 25. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- 26. Desperately seeking difference / Jackie Stacey -- 27. White privilege and looking relations: race and gender in feminist film theory / Jane Gaines -- 28. Sexuality in the field of vision / Jacqueline Rose -- G: 'Seeing' racial difference. 29. The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon -- 30. Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America / Mary Louise Pratt -- 31. Reading racial fetishism: the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe / Kobena Mercer -- 32. Dark continents: epistemologies of racial and sexual difference in psychoanalysis and the cinema / Mary Ann Doane -- 33. White / Richard Dyer |
| Summary |
Visual Culture is a primary resource of key statements on photographic meaning, representation and visual culture that draws upon the works of a wide range of influential scholars and thinkers including Barthes, Sontag, Baudrillard and Mulvey |
| Analysis |
Anthologie |
| Notes |
First published 1999. Reprinted 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 (twice), 2007 (twice), 2013 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art and society.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Image (Philosophy)
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Photography.
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Popular culture.
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Semiotics and the arts.
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Visual communication.
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Visual perception.
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| Author |
Evans, Jessica, editor
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Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014, editor
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Open University.
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| LC no. |
99230249 |
| ISBN |
0761962476 |
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0761962484 |
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9780761962472 |
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9780761962489 |
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