The Visual Culture Reader

ISBN 10: 0415141338 / ISBN 13: 9780415141338

Published by Routledge, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Visual Culture Reader

Publisher: Routledge

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis:

The Visual Culture Reader brings together the key writings in the exciting new interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Key features of the Reader include:
* a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting,
sculpture, advertising, virtual reality and other electronic imaging * thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editor
* sections addressing What Is Visual Culture; Visual Culture and Everyday Life; Virtuality: Virtual Bodies, Virtual Spaces; Race, Empire and After; Postcolonial Visual Cultures; Gender and Sexuality
* two specially-written introductory articles, by Irit Rogoff and Ella Shohat
* a stunning line-up of authors, from Roland Barthes to Donna Haraway.
Taken as a whole, the essays provide a comprehensive response to the diversity of contemporary visual culture, and address the need of our modern and postmodern culture to render experience in visual form.
Contributors include: Roland Barthes, Judith Butler, Anthea Callen, James Clifford, Michel de Certeau, René Descartes, Richard Dyer, John Fiske, Michel Foucault, Coco Fusco, Paul Gilroy, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Marshall McLuhan, Lynda Nead, Griselda Pollock, Mary-Louise Pratt, Irit Rogoff, Andrew Ross, Ella Shohat and Paul Virilio.

Review:

'This volume is required reading for anyone interested in media studies or visual culture. It brings critical visuality studies up to the moment and introduces new directions for future work. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.' - A. M. Laflen, Marist College in CHOICE

'This is a first rate collection covering the range and the depth of critical visual studies today. An essential guide for anyone concerned with the power of the image and the image of power.' - McKenzie Wark, Eugene Lang College, USA

'This 3rd edition of Nicholas Mirzoeff’s The Visual Culture Reader is unrecognizable from the collection’s first edition published way back in the last millennium. Its content, character, and urgency are invigorating and galvanizing. If the Reader’s first edition gave shape to Visual Culture Studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry, this 3rd edition will, I believe, mould visual culture itself.' - Marquard Smith, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Visual Culture & Director of Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, UK

'With this volume, Mirzoeff has assembled an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners of visual culture across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. Combining foundational texts and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship, the Third Edition of the VCR charts the emergence of critical visuality studies and brings the field into the twenty-first century.' - A. Joan Saab, University of Rochester, USA