The visual culture reader /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Description:xvi, 530 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3560261
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Other authors / contributors:Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
ISBN:0415141338 (hbk.)
0415141346 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Introductions/Provocations/Conversations
  • The Subject of Visual Culture
  • Studying Visual Culture
  • Narrativizing Visual Culture: Towards a Polycentric Aesthetics
  • Voices from the Web
  • Kino-I, Kino-World: Notes on the Cinematic Mode of Production
  • Conversations in Visual Culture
  • Part 2. Plug In Theory
  • Optics
  • The Fetishism of the Commodity
  • Double-Consciousness
  • Woman in a Mirror
  • The Fact of Blackness
  • Rhetoric of the Image
  • Four Fundamental Concepts of Pyschoanalysis
  • The Society of the Spectacle
  • Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
  • Simulacra and Simulations
  • Prohibition, Psychoanalysis and the Heterosexual Matrix
  • Part 3. Global/Digital
  • (a.) Imagining Globalization Here and Now
  • Remaking Passports: Visual Thought and the debate on multiculturalism
  • Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness
  • The Multiple Viewpoint: Diaspora and Visual Culture
  • Gender, Nationalism and Internationalism in Japanese contemporary art
  • (b.) The Space of the Digital of Other Spaces
  • Spectres of Cyberspace
  • Othering Cyberspace
  • Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet and Transnationality
  • Eden by Wire: Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape
  • Satellite and Cyber Visualities: Analyzing the Digital Earth
  • Part 4. Spectacle And Display
  • Spectacle, Display, Surveillance: Historical Citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies
  • Come to Western Australia
  • Visual Stories
  • The Great Un-American Numbers Game
  • The Wall, the Screen and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
  • The Prison House of Culture: Why African Art? Why the Guggenheim? Why Now?
  • Videotech
  • What is Digital Cinema? Lev Manovich, Film and the Digital in Visual Studies: Film Studies in the Era of Convergence
  • Kung-Fu Cinema and Frugality
  • The Video Public Sphere
  • Part 5. Visual Colonialism/Visual Transculture
  • Visual Colonialism, Visual Regimes of Colonisation: Aboriginal Seeing and European Vision in Australia
  • Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order
  • Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising
  • from The Colonial Harem
  • Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade
  • Passing for White, Passing for Black
  • The Other History of Intercultural Performance
  • Photography and the Substance of the Image
  • Engendering New Worlds: Allegories of Rape and Reconciliation
  • Part 6. The Gaze, the Body, and Sexuality (a) The Gaze and Sexuality Ideal Masculinities: An Anatomy