Visual culture : the reader

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Author:

Evans, Jessica.

ISBN:

9780761962472

9780761962489

Publication Information:

London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications in association with the Open University, 1999.

Physical Description:

xviii, 478 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contents:

What is visual culture? / Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall -- Part I: Cultures of the visual. Introduction / Jessica Evans. A. Rhetoric of the image. The natural attitude / Norman Bryson ; Rhetoric of the image / Roland Barthes ; Art, common sense and photography / Victor Burgin ; Myth today / Roland Barthes ; B. Techniques of the visible. Panopticism / Michel Foucault ; The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin ; The image-world / Susan Sontag ; Separation perfected / Guy Debord ; The bottom line on planet one: squaring up to The face / Dick Hebdige -- Part II: Regulating photographic meanings. Introduction / Jessica Evans. C. Theorizing photography. On the institutions of photography / Simon Watney ; The social definition of photography / Pierre Bourdieu ; Reading an archive: photography between labour and capital / Allan Sekula ; Photography's discursive spaces / Rosalind Krauss ; D. Institutions and practices in photography. The museum's old, the library's new subject / Douglas Crimp ; Living with contradictions: critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics / Abigail Solomon-Godeau ; Evidence, truth and order: a means of surveillance / John Tagg ; Feeble monsters: making up disabled people / Jessica Evans ; Marketing mass photography / Don Slater -- Part III: Looking and subjectivity. Introduction / Stuart Hall. E. Theoretical perspectives. Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (notes toward an investigation) / Louis Althusser ; Fetishism / Sigmund Freud ; The scoptophilic instinct and identification / Otto Fenichel ; The subject / Kaja Silverman ; Fantasia / Elizabeth Cowie ; The other question: the stereotype and colonial discourse ; F. Gendering the gaze. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey ; Desperately seeking difference / Jackie Stacey ; White privilege and looking relations: race and gender in feminist film theory / Jane Gaines ; Sexuality in the field of vision / Jacqueline Rose ; G. 'Seeing' racial difference. The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon ; Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America / Mary Louise Pratt ; Reading racial fetishism: the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe / Kobena Mercer ; Dark continents: epistemologies of racial and sexual difference in psychoanalysis and the cinema / Mary Ann Doane ; White / Richard Dyer.

Abstract:

Visual Culture is a primary resource of key statements on photographic meaning, representation and visual culture that draws upon the works of a wide range of influential scholars and thinkers including Barthes, Sontag, Baudrillard and Mulvey.

Subject Term:

Image (Philosophy)

Visual perception.

Semiotics and the arts.

Photography.

Beeldcommunicatie.

Added Author:

Evans, Jessica.

Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014.

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`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.

Visual Culture sets the agenda for the study of Visual Culture and will be essential reading for researchers and students alike.