Reading Images: 5 (Readers in Cultural Criticism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333765397 ISBN 13: 9780333765395

Publisher: Palgrave, 2000

Synopsis

Is seeing a matter of nature? Does perspective show things as they really are? Can we read an image in the same way as a text? Reading Images draws together essays that attempt to answer these questions but in a variety of ways and from the different theoretical positions offered by psychoanalysis, semiotics, poststructuralism and postmodernism. The anthology opens up a dialogue between seeing and the seen, text and image, theory and practice. By discussing a range of visual material, from advertising and architecture to painting and photography, it crosses generic and disciplinary boundaries and suggests ways in which vision and visuality are related to questions of textuality, subjectivity, race and gender.

About this title

Review:

'This book will assist in broadening students' understanding of the naturally generative nature of the visual image - well done!.' - R. Harper, University of Wales, Bangor

About the Author:

JULIA THOMAS is a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0333765397
• ISBN 13: 9780333765395
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Thomas Julia