Writing the Image After Roland Barthes (New Cultural Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812233697 ISBN 13: 9780812233698

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

Synopsis

In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, Jean-Michel Rabate and nineteen contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media and popular culture.

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Review

"A valuable, exciting, and welcome addition to the commentary in English on Roland Barthes."--Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario "An extensive volume of Barthes's work on film, photography, and visual culture has been overdue. Jean-Michel Rabate has chosen an apt moment to fill this gap."--Gabriele Schwab, University of California, Irvine

About the Author

Jean-Michel Rabate is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of several books, including The Ghosts of Modernity (1995).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812233697
• ISBN 13: 9780812233698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Rabate Jean-Michel