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On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture) - Softcover

Book 12 of 26: Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture

Raengo, Alessandra

 
9781584659747: On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)

Synopsis

In this landmark work of critical theory, black studies, and visual culture studies, Alessandra Raengo boldly reads race as a theory of the image. By placing emphasis on the surface of the visual as the repository of its meaning, race presents the most enduring ontological approach to what images are, how they feel, and what they mean. Having established her theoretical concerns, the author's eclectic readings of various artifacts of visual culture, fine arts, cinema, and rhetorical tropes provoke and destabilize readers' visual comfort zone, forcing them to recognize the unstated racial aspects of viewing and the foundational role of race in informing the visual.

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About the Author

ALESSANDRA RAENGO is an assistant professor of moving image studies in the Department of Communications at Georgia State University.

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