Visual Culture: The Reader (Published in association with The Open University)
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Editor: Jessica EvansEditor: Stuart Hall
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-08-09
ISBN: 0761962476
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
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Book Review: great selection of essays dealing with visual culture
Summary: 5 Stars
this selection of essays offer a wide understanding of all the arenas in which visual analysis can take place. it has an introduction about what is visual culture and essays from academics such as j. clifford, m. de certeau, g. pollock, etc. it is a review on the history of visuality and the implications of visual culture in the arenas of the representation of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc. You wont regret buying this book if you are interested in the study of visual culture.
Summary of Visual Culture: The Reader (Published in association with The Open University)
"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 Rochester
Visual Culture: The Reader provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this reader puts issues of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at centre stage.
Divided into three parts, The Culture of the Visual, Regulating Photographic Meaning, Looking and Subjectivity, this reader enables students to make hitherto unmade connections across art, film and photography history and theory, semiotics, history, semiotics and communications, media studies, and cultural theory. The key statements are from the work of:
Visual Culture: The Reader sets the agenda for the study of Visual Culture and will be an essential sourcebook for researchers and students alike.
This is the reader for the module The Image and Visual Culture (D850) - part of The Open University Masters in Social Sciences Programme.?
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