Image critique & the fall of the Berlin wall.

By:

Manghani, Sunil

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bristol : Intellect Books, 2008.Description: 230 sISBN:

1841501905
9781841501901

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

700.103 MAN

Summary: Sunil Manghani\'s Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall examines the use of visual image, using the event of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a contemporary case study.The book presents a new critical visual theory: image critique - a dual procedure combining a focus on both analysing and interpreting images, with a consideration of how images can be used to critically examine and engage with our contemporary culture. Manghani\'s interdisciplinary approach is complimented by a vast array of sources, including illustrative visual images, creating an accessible and lively debate.Manghani examines current debates surrounding visual culture, ranging from such topics as Francis Fukuyama\'s end of history thesis to metapictures and East German film. The result is an exhilarating interweaving of history, politics, and visual culture.It presents an image-based approach to critical theory. It provides a rich interplay of text and image. It offers a large number of images and stills. Whilst much has been written about Berlin and the Berlin Wall (mostly in the context of WWII or German reunification), this publication is the first to focus specifically on the media angle of the event, and its significance and influence in the development of political debate.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Although we are now accustomed to watching history unfold live on the air, the fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the first instances when history was produced on television. Inspired by the Wall and its powerful resonances, Sunil Manghani's breakthrough study presents the new critical concept of "image critique," a method of critiquing images while simultaneously using them as a means to engage with contemporary culture. Manghani examines current debates surrounding visual culture, ranging from such topics as Francis Fukuyama's end of history thesis to metapictures and East German film. The resulting volume is an exhilarating interweaving of history, politics, and visual culture. "Sunil Manghani's Image Critique & the Fall of the Berlin Wall is the best sort of scholarly book--an intellectually grounded and theoretically adventurous critical performance. Through his concept of image critique, Manghani makes a virtue out of the many attributes of images that bedevil visual cultural studies, rightly insisting that rather than domesticating images for the tyranny of the word, scholars must do visual studies from the ground of images, in the process reconceptualizing theory and criticism. Manghani adeptly anchors his insights in close engagements with images, most notably images from the event of the fall of the Berlin Wall. If heeded, Manghani's book will change the trajectory of visual cultural studies by making critique a performance with force in the world."--Kevin DeLuca, University of Georgia

Sunil Manghani\'s Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall examines the use of visual image, using the event of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a contemporary case study.The book presents a new critical visual theory: image critique - a dual procedure combining a focus on both analysing and interpreting images, with a consideration of how images can be used to critically examine and engage with our contemporary culture. Manghani\'s interdisciplinary approach is complimented by a vast array of sources, including illustrative visual images, creating an accessible and lively debate.Manghani examines current debates surrounding visual culture, ranging from such topics as Francis Fukuyama\'s end of history thesis to metapictures and East German film. The result is an exhilarating interweaving of history, politics, and visual culture.It presents an image-based approach to critical theory. It provides a rich interplay of text and image. It offers a large number of images and stills. Whilst much has been written about Berlin and the Berlin Wall (mostly in the context of WWII or German reunification), this publication is the first to focus specifically on the media angle of the event, and its significance and influence in the development of political debate.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Illustrations
The Fall of the Berlin Wall (...an Imaginary)
Before Words...
Chapter 1 On the Sight of the Berlin Wall
Chapter 2 The Problem of Visual Culture
Chapter 3 The End of History?
Chapter 4 Living without an Alternative
Chapter 5 Public Screening: Critical Pictures of the Wall
Afterword: Ecologies of Images, Topologies of Critique
Bibliography
Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sunil Manghani is lecturer in film and television at York St John University College, United Kingdom. He is coeditor of The Image Reader .