Visual Culture: The Reader (Published in association with The Open University) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761962476 ISBN 13: 9780761962472

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

`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.

About this title

Review:

`Visual Culture offers readers incredible riches. It contains a number of important articles on theoretical matters involving the analysis and interpretation of images and their culture, social and political dimensions. As such, it is a major contribution to our understanding of visual culture' - Journal of Communication

"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 essential text in visual and cultural studies." 

(Janet Wolff)

About the Author:

Jessica Evans is Senior Lecturer in Cultural & Media Studies at the Open University. 

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0761962476
• ISBN 13: 9780761962472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Evans Jessica, Hall Stuart