| Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
By Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwrightmarita Sturken
ISBN: 9780198742715
Published: 2001
Number of Pages: 385
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paperback |
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Product Type: Book
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: This comprehensive and engaging introduction to visual culture provides an overview of a range of theories about how we understand visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to experience pleasure, and to learn. Using over 175 illustrations, Professors Sturken and Cartwright examine how images - paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, news images, the Internet, digital images, and science images - gain meaning in different cultural arenas, from art and commerce to science and the law, how they travel globally and in distinct cultures, and how they are an integral and important aspect of our lives. These images are analyzed in relation to a range of cultural and representational issues (desire, power, the gaze, bodies, sexuality, ethnicity) and methodologies (semiotics, marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonial theory). Practices of Looking provides an explanation of the fundamentals of these theories while presenting visual examples of how they function. Central concepts such as ideology, the concept of the spectator, the role of reproduction in visual culture, the mass media and the public sphere, consumer culture, and postmodernism, among others, are explained in depth and in accessible, informative language. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright provide the best introductory book for students coming to the study of visual culture for the first time. Truly interdisciplinary, this book aims to be the key text for courses across a range of disciplines including media and film studies, art history, photography, and communication media. |
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9780198742715Language Code
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Includes index.Formatted Contents Note:
1. Practices of looking: images, power, and politics -- 2. Viewers make meaning -- 3. Spectatorship, power, and knowledge -- 4. Reproduction and visual technologies -- 5. The mass media and the public sphere -- 6. Consumer culture and the manufacturing of desire -- 7. Postmodernism and popular culture -- 8. Scientific looking, looking at science -- 9. The global flow of visual culture.Local Notes:
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Culture populaire. - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Culture. - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
photography - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
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Visual communication. - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
visual culture - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Visual perception. - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Visual sociology - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
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visual technologyAdded Entry - Personal Name
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Cartwright, Lisa, - Dates associated with a name:
1959- - Dates associated with a name:
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