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An introduction to visual culture โดย Nicholas Mirzoeff

The emerging field of visual culture poses rough terrain for beginners with its nuanced distinctions and reliance on postmodern theory. Not untilAn Introduction to Visual Culturehas any book attempted to present a comprehensive and accessible approach to this exciting new subject. Nicholas Mirzoeff begins by defining what visual culture is, and explores how and why visual media--fine art, cinema, the Internet, advertising, performance, photography, television--have become so central to contemporary everyday life. He argues that the visual is replacing the linguistic as our primary means of communicating with each other and of understanding our postmodern world, demonstrating this through powerful examples, from Diana's funeral to the Latina singer Selena, and from the X-Files to Independence Day. Mirzoeff then examines the importance of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and the body in visual culture. These various forms of social discourse provide essential tools for readingimages and thus define the study of visual culture as an inherently political project. Mirzoeff tackles the difficult subject of the gaze and the "other" and offers the reader a clear synthesis of these concepts. Lively and provocative,An Introduction to Visual Cultureoffers an accessible entry to this new way of understanding images.
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Postmodernism and popular culture: a cultural history โดย John Docker

In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. Along the way readers will visit the architecture of Le Corbusier, take a ride on the Sydney monorail, watch Prisoner (Cell Block H) on TV, come into contact with Derrida, read some crime fiction and enter into the world of carnival. The book engages, in a stimulating and illuminating way, with some of the most important academic debates of our time. It combines polemical force with intellectual rigour, reclaiming popular culture from the forces opposed to it. John Dockerās personal style and accessible prose will introduce postmodernism to many interested general readers and students intimidated by other dense, theoretical tracts. The breadth and intelligence of his cultural history will make the book essential reading for scholars, in a range of disciplines, around the world.
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The visual culture reader โดย Nicholas Mirzoeff

In response to rapid changes in the emerging interdisciplinary field of visual culture, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition ofThe Visual Culture Reader,the first and leading collection of essays on the topic, brings together the key writings, covering a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, virtual reality, and other electronic imaging systems. The second edition features a new introduction, new sections and section introductions, 40 illustrations and previously unpublished material by key writers in the field.

The Visual Culture Readerfeatures introductory essays tracing the development of visual culture studies over the last fifteen years, and extracts grouped into thematic sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editor. Essays by: Irit Rogoff, Ella Shohat, Jonathan L. Beller, WJT Mitchell, René Descartes, Karl Marx, WEB DuBois, Marshall McLuhan, Frantz Fanon, Roland Barthes, Guy Debord, LouisAlthusser, Jean Beaudrillard, Judith Butler, N. Katherine Hayles, Kobena Mercer, Nestor Garlia Canclini, Arjun Appadurai, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Lisa Bloom, Michel Foucault, Geoffrey Batchen, Wendy Chun, Lisa Nakamura, Thomas Campanella, Lisa Parks, Anne Friedberg, Lev Manovich, May Joseph, David Joselit, Tara McPherson, Toby Miller, Andrew Ross, John Fiske, Anne Reynolds, Michele Wallace, Marita Sturken, Donna Haraway, Lisa Cartwright, Anne Balsamo, Amelia Jones, Terry Smith, Timothy Mitchell, Anne McClintock, Malek Alloula, Suzanne Preston Blier, Jill Casid, Adrian Piper, Coco Fusco, Olu Oguibe, Orianna Baddeley, Anthea Callen, Tamar Garb, Thomas Waugh, Reina Lewis, Raiford Morris, Joanne Morra, Marquard Smith, Omayra Cruz, Jacques Lacan, Robert Stam, Carol Mavor, Judith Halberstam
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Visual culture: the study of the visual after the cultural turn โดย Margarita Dikovitskaya

In recent years, visual culture has emerged as a growing and important interdisciplinary field of study. Visual culture regards images as central to the representation of meaning in the world. It encompasses "high" art without an assumption of its higher status. But despite the current proliferation of studies and programs in visual culture, there seems to be no consensus within the field itself as to its scope and objectives, definitions, and methods. In Visual Culture, Margaret Dikovitskaya offers an overview of this new area of study in order to reconcile its diverse theoretical positions and understand its potential for further research. Her aim is to show how visual culture can avoid what she defines as the Scylla and Charybdis that threaten it: the lack of a specific object of study (given its departure from the traditional hierarchies of art history) and the expansion of the field to the point of incoherence as it seems to subsume everything related to the cultural and the visual.

Dikovitskaya gives us an archaeology of visual culture, examining the "cultural turn" away from art history and the emergence of visual studies. Drawing on responses to questionnaires, oral histories, and interviews with the field's leading scholars, she discusses first the field's history, theoretical frameworks, and methods, and then examines four programs and courses in visual culture—those at the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, the University of California at Irvine, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Bringing together considerations of theory and practice, Dikovitskaya charts the future of visual culture programs in the twenty-first century.

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Visual culture: the reader โดย Jessica Evans,Stuart Hall

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 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 theory, this Reader puts the study of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at centre stage.
Divided into three parts: Cultures of the Visual; Regulating Photographic Meaning; and Looking and Subjectivity, the Reader enables students to make hitherto unmade connections between art, film and photography history and theory, history, semiotics and communications, media studies, and cultural theory.
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