W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Living Pictures
Redaktion: Purgar, Kresimir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies - pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others - while systematically presenting the work of W.J.T.Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317288909
• Artikelnr.: 47381900

Autorenporträt

Kreimir Purgar is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Among his recent titles is the co-edited volume Theorizing Images (2016), as well as the articles "Coming to Terms with Images: Visual Studies and Beyond" (2016) and "What is not an Image (Anymore)? Iconic Difference, Immersion, and Iconic Simultaneity in the Age of Screens" (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Kreimir Purgar
Part 1: Towards a Critical Iconology
1. The Changing Patterns of Iconology: Seven Questions to Mitchell from the
20th Century
Timothy Erwin
2. What is an Image? W.J.T. Mitchell's Picturing Theory
Francesco Gori
3. Post-Structuralist Iconology: Genealogical and Historical Concerns of
Mitchell's Image Science
György E. Sz¿nyi
4. Iconology as Cultural Symptomatology: Dinosaurs, Clones and the Golden
Calf in Mitchell's Image Theory
Kreimir Purgar
5. Words and Pictures in the Age of the Image: An Interview with W.J.T.
Mitchell
Andrew McNamara
Part II: (Post)Disciplinary Context
6. From Image/Text to Biopictures: Key Concepts in W.J.T. Mitchell's Image
Theory
Michele Cometa
7. The Birth of the Discipline: W.J.T. Mitchell and the Chicago School of
Visual Studies
Ian Verstegen
8. What Discipline? On Mitchell's "Interdisciplinarity" and German
Medienwissenschaft
Jens Schröter
9. Mitchell and Boehm - A Dialogue: Image Science in the European Context
Luca Vargiu
10. Images and their Incarnations: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
Asbjørn Grønstad, Øyvind Vågnes
Part III: Interpretive Readings
11. What Do Photographs Want? Mitchell's Theory of Photography from the
Camera Obscura to the Networked Lens
Thomas Stubblefield
12. The Eyes Have Ears: Sound in W.J.T. Mitchell's Pictures from Paragone
to Occupy Wall Street
Hannah Higgins
13. Living Pictures of Democracy: W.J.T. Mitchell's Iconology as Political
Philosophy
Maxime Boidy
14. Showing Showing: Reading Mitchell's "Queer" Metapictures
John Paul Ricco
15. After the Pictorial Turn: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
Kreimir Purgar
Kreimir Purgar