| Physical description |
385 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 Practices of Looking: Images, Power, and Politics 10 -- Representation 12 -- Myth of photographic truth 16 -- Images and ideology 21 -- How we negotiate the meaning of images 25 -- Value of images 31 -- Image icons 36 -- 2 Viewers Make Meaning 45 -- Producers' intended meanings 45 -- Aesthetics and taste 48 -- Reading images as ideological subjects 50 -- Encoding and decoding 56 -- Appropriation and oppositional readings 58 -- Re-appropriations and counter-bricolage 68 -- 3 Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge 72 -- Psychoanalysis and the image spectator 72 -- Gaze 76 -- Changing concepts of the gaze 82 -- Discourse, the gaze, and the other 93 -- Power/knowledge and panopticism 96 -- Gaze and the exotic 100 -- 4 Reproduction and Visual Technologies 109 -- Realism and the history of perspective 111 -- Realism and visual technologies 115 -- Reproduction of images 121 -- Reproduced images as politics 130 -- Visual technologies and phenomenology 134 -- Digital image 138 -- Virtual space and interactive images 144 -- 5 Mass Media and the Public Sphere 151 -- Critiques of the mass media 161 -- Mass media and democratic potential 168 -- Television and the question of sponsorship 172 -- Media and the public sphere 177 -- New media cultures 183 -- 6 Consumer Culture and the Manufacturing of Desire 189 -- Consumer society 191 -- Commodity culture and commodity fetishism 198 -- Addressing the consumer 203 -- Images and text 209 -- Envy, desire, and glamour 212 -- Belonging and difference 218 -- Bricolage and counter-bricolage 222 -- Brand 227 -- Anti-ad practices 231 -- 7 Postmodernism and Popular Culture 237 -- Modernism 240 -- Postmodernism 251 -- Reflexivity 254 -- Copy, pastiche, and institutional critique 259 -- Popular culture: parody and reflexivity 264 -- Addressing the postmodern consumer 270 -- 8 Scientific Looking, Looking at Science 279 -- Images as evidence 280 -- Scientific looking 286 -- Images in biomedicine: sonograms and fetal personhood 291 -- Scientific images as advocacy and politics 294 -- Vision and truth 298 -- Genetics and the digital body 300 -- Popular science 308 -- 9 Global Flow of Visual Culture 315 -- Television flow: from the local to the global 318 -- Critique of cultural imperialism 322 -- Markets of the Third World 324 -- Alternative circulations: hybrid and diasporic images 327 -- Internet: global village or multinational corporate marketplace? 333 -- World Wide Web as private and public sphere 338 -- Challenge of the Internet to privacy, censorship, and free speech 342 -- Place of the visual in the new millennium 344. |
| Summary |
This comprehensive and engaging introduction to visual culture explores the ways we use and understand images. It looks at painting, photography, film, television, and new media across the realms of art, advertising, news, science, and law. Authors Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright present the diverse range of approaches to visual analysis that have emerged in the last few decades, and lead the reader through the key theories of visual culture in an accessible and highly readable approach. |
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Including over 180 images, this truly interdisciplinary and beautifully designed book aims to be a comprehensive introduction for anyone interested in images, and the key text for courses across a range of disciplines including media and film studies, art history, photography, and communication. |
| Other author |
Cartwright, Lisa, 1959-
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| Subject |
Visual sociology.
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Popular culture.
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| ISBN |
0198742711 (paperback) No price |
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