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The Visual Culture Reader -

The Visual Culture Reader

Nicholas Mirzoeff (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
760 Seiten
2002 | 2nd New edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-25221-8 (ISBN)
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In response to rapid changes in the field of visual culture, this updated second edition brings together key writings on photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture.
The Visual Culture Reader does justice to this exciting interdisciplinary field, bringing together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles by authors including Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway and Kobena Mercer. In total, 63 essays cover photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture. The reader, now in a completely revised new edition, comprises articles grouped into thematic sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editor, and including suggestions for further reading.

Part 1 Introductions/provocations/conversations: the subject of visual culture, Nicholas Mirzoeff; studying visual culture, Irit Rogoff; narrativizing visual culture - towards a polycentric aesthetics, Ella Shohat and Robert Stam; voices from the Web, various; kino-I, kino-world - notes on the cinematic mode of production, Jonathan L. Beller; conversations in visual culture, W.J.T. Mitchell. Part 2 Plug-in theory: optics, Rene Descartes; the fetishism of the commodity, Karl Marx ; double-consciousness, W.E.B. Dubois; woman in a mirror, Marshall McLuhan; the fact of blackness, Frantz Fanon; rhetoric of the image, Roland Barthes; four fundamental concepts of pyschoanalysis, Jacques Lacan; the society of the spectacle, Guy Debord; ideology and ideological state apparatuses, Louis Althusser; simulacra and simulations, Jean Baudrillard; prohibition, psychoanalysis and the heterosexual matrix, Judith Butler; virtual bodies and flickering signifiers, N. Katherine Hayles. Part 3 Global/digita: (a) imagining globalization here and now; Arjun Appadurai; remaking passports - visual thought and the debate on multiculturalism, Nestor Garcia Canclini; ethnicity and internationality new British art and diaspora-based blackness, Kobena Mercer; the multiple viewpoint - diaspora and visual culture, Nicholas Mirzoeff; gender, nationalism and internationalism in Japanese contemporary art, Lisa Bloom; (b) the space of the digital of other spaces, Michel Foucault; spectres of cyberspace, Geoffrey Batchen; othering cyberspace, Wendy Chun; where do you want to go today? cybernetic tourism, the internet and transnationality, Lisa Nakamura; Eden by wire - web cameras and the telepresent landscape, Thomas Campanella; satellite and cyber visualities - Analysing the digital Earth, Lisa Parks. Part 4 Spectacle and display: spectacle, display, surveillance - historical citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies, Frederick Wiseman; come to Western Australia, Toby Miller; visual stories, Anne Reynolds; the great un-American numbers game, Andrew Ross; the wall, the screen and the image - the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, Marita Sturken; the prison house of culture - why African art? why the Guggenheim? why now? Michelle Wallace; videotech, John Fiske; cinema after film, television after the networks, the mobilized and virtual gaze in modernity - flaneur/flaneuse, Anne Friedberg; what is digital cinema? Lev Manovich; film and the digital in visual studies - film studies in the era of convergence, Lisa Cartwright; kung-fu cinema and frugality, May Joseph; the video public sphere, David Joselit and Tara McPherson. Part 5 Visual colonialism/visual transculture. Part 6 The gaze, the body and sexuality. (Part contents.)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.12.2002
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 2041 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-415-25221-0 / 0415252210
ISBN-13 978-0-415-25221-8 / 9780415252218
Zustand Neuware
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