Visual Culture Reader by Mark Williams and Keith Davids (1998, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415141346

ISBN-139780415141345

eBay Product ID (ePID)1111836

Product Key Features

Number of Pages560 Pages

Publication NameVisual Culture Reader

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

SubjectReaders / Beginner, Criticism & Theory, General, Literacy, History / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Language Arts & Disciplines, Juvenile Nonfiction

AuthorMark Williams, Keith Davids

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight42.5 Oz

Item Length1 in

Item Width0.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN99-188035

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306.47

Table Of ContentA Visual Reader: Contents Introductions/Provocations Nicholas Mirzoeff , 'What is Visual Culture?' Irit Rogoff , 'Studying Visual Culture.' Ella Shohat and Robert Stam , 'Narrativizing Visual Culture: Towards a Polycentric Aesthetics.' 1. A Genealogy of Visual Culture: From Art to Culture Rene Descartes , 'Optics', from The Discourse on Method Martin Jay , 'The Scopic Regimes of Modernity.' Roland Barthes, 'The Rhetoric of the Image.' Griselda Pollock , 'Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity.' Carol Duncan , 'The Modern Art Museum.' James Clifford , 'On Collecting Art and Culture.' Paul Virilio , from The Vision Machine 2. Visual Culture and Everyday Life Marshall McLuhan , 'Woman in a Mirror.' Ann Reynolds , 'Visual Stories.' Michel de Certeau , from The Practice of Everyday Life. John Fiske , 'Videotech.' Marita Sturken , 'The Wall, the Screen and the Image: The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.' 3. Virtuality: Virtual Bodies, Virtual Spaces (a) The Virtual Body Donna Haraway , 'The Persistence of Vision.' Lisa Cartwright , 'Science and the Cinema.' Susan Bordo , 'Reading the Slender Body.' Ann Balsamo , 'On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body.' (b) Virtual Spaces Michel Foucault , 'Of Other Spaces.' Jonathan Crary , from Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Anne Friedberg , from Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern. Mary-Louise Pratt , from Imperial Eyes: Travel-Writing and Transculturation. Geoffrey Batchen , 'Spectres of Cyberspace.' 4. Race and Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Culture (a) Visual Colonialism Timothy Mitchell , 'Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order.' Anne McClintock , 'Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising.' Malek Alloula , from The Colonial Harem. Suzanne Preston Blier 'Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade.' (b) Visualizing Race and Identity Paul Gilroy , 'Art of Darkness: Black Art and the Problem of Belonging to England.' Bell Hooks , 'Representing Whiteness: Seeing Wings of Desire.' Andrew Ross , 'The Gangsta and the Diva.' (c) Identity and Transculture Adrian Piper , 'Passing for White, Passing for Black.' Coco Fusco , 'The Other History of Intercultural Performance.' Nestor Garcia Canclini , 'Remaking Passports: Visual Thought in the Debate on Multiculturalism.' Oriana Baddeley , 'Engendering New Worlds: Allegories of Rape and Reconciliation.' 5. Gender and Sexuality (a) The Gaze and Sexuality Anthea Callen , 'Ideal Masculinities: An Anatomy of Power.' Tamar Garb , 'The forbidden gaze: women artists and the male nude in late nineteenth-century France.' Judith Butler , from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. (b) Queering the Visual Thomas Waugh , 'The Third Body: Patterns in the Constructions of the Subject in the Gay Male Narrative Film.' Judith Butler , 'Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion.' Reina Lewis , 'Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and the Fashion Industry.' (c) Pornography Lynda Nead , from The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality Sandra Buckley , 'Penguin in Bondage': A Graphic Tale of Japanese Comic Books.' Richard Dyer , 'Idol Thoughts: orgasm and self-reflexivity in gay pornography.'

SynopsisThe diverse essays collected here constitute a comprehensive exploration of the emerging interdisciplinary field of visual culture.Visual culture is concerned with visual events in which information, meaning or pleasure is sought by the consumer in the encounter with visual artefacts, from oil paintings to the internet. The diverse essays collected here constitute a comprehensive exploration of the emerging interdisciplinary field of visual culture, and examine why modern and postmodern culture place such a premium on rendering experience in visual form., Visual culture is concerned with visual events in which information, meaning or pleasure is sought by the consumer in the encounter with visual artefacts, from oil paintings to the internet. The diverse essays collected here constitute a comprehensive exploration of the emerging interdisciplinary field of visual culture, and examine why modern and postmodern culture place such a premium on rendering experience in visual form.

LC Classification NumberNX458.V58 1998