Visual Culture

Herausgeber: Jenks, Chris

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of original and exciting essays explores the `visual' character of contemporary culture. Examining film, painting, propaganda, photography and television, this is an indispensible guide to this field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9781138137691
• ISBN-10: 1138137693
• Artikelnr.: 45102627

Autorenporträt

Chris Jenks

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 THE CENTRALITY OF THE EYE IN WESTERN CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION
2 ADVERTISING: THE RHETORICAL IMPERATIVE
3 REPORTING AND VISUALISING
4 FRACTURED SUBJECTIVITY
5 THE CITY
THE CINEMA: MODERN SPACES
6 FABULOUS CONFUSION! POP BEFORE POP?
7 AN ART OF SCHOLARS: CORRUPTION
NEGATION AND PARTICULARITY IN PAINTINGS BY RYMAN AND RICHTER
8 WATCHING YOUR STEP: THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF THE FLANEUR
9 REICH DREAMS: RITUAL HORROR AND ARMOURED BODIES
10 TELEVISION: NOT SO MUCH A VISUAL MEDIUM
MORE A VISIBLE OBJECT
11 FOUCAULT'S OPTICS: THE (IN) VISION OF MORTALITY AND MODERNITY
12 MANAGING 'TRADITION': THE PLIGHT OF AESTHETIC PRACTICES AND THEIR ANALYSIS IN A TECHNO SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
13 PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODERN VISION: THE SPECTACLE OF 'NATURAL MAGIC'
14 THREE IMAGES OF THE VISUAL: EMPIRICAL
FORMAL AND NORMATIVE
Index