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Practices of looking : an introduction to visual culture / Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003, c2001.Description: 385 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0198742711 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.103 STU
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This comprehensive and engaging introduction to visual culture provides an overview of a range of theories about how we understand visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to experience pleasure, and to learn. Using over 175 illustrations, Professors Sturken and Cartwright examine how images - paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, news images, the Internet, digital images, and science images - gain meaning in different cultural arenas, from art and commerce to science and the law, how they travel globally and in distinct cultures, and how they are an integral and important aspect of our lives. These images are analyzed in relation to a range of cultural and representational issues (desire, power, the gaze, bodies, sexuality, ethnicity) and methodologies (semiotics, marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonial theory). Practices of Looking provides an explanation of the fundamentals of these theories while presenting visual examples of how they function. Central concepts such as ideology, the concept of the spectator, the role of reproduction in visual culture, the mass media and the public sphere, consumer culture, and postmodernism, among others, are explained in depth and in accessible, informative language.Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright provide the best introductory book for students coming to the study of visual culture for the first time. Truly interdisciplinary, this book aims to be the key text for courses across a range of disciplines including media and film studies, art history, photography, and communication media.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 Practices of Looking: Images, Power, and Politics
  • Representation
  • The Myth of Photographic Truth
  • Images and Ideology
  • How We Negotiate the Meaning of Images
  • The Value of Images
  • Image Icons
  • 2 Viewers Make Meaning
  • Producers' Intended Meanings
  • Aesthetics and Taste
  • Reading Images as Ideological Subjects
  • Encoding and Decoding
  • Appropriation and Oppositional Readings
  • Re-appropriations and Counter-Bricolage
  • 3 Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge
  • Psychoanalysis and the Image Spectator
  • The Gaze
  • Changing Concepts of the Gaze
  • Discourse, the Gaze, and the Other
  • Power/Knowledge and Panopticism
  • The Gaze and The Exotic
  • 4 Reproduction and Visual Technologies
  • Realism and the History of Perspective
  • Realism and Visual Technologies
  • The Reproduction of Images
  • Reproduced Images as Politics
  • Visual Technologies and Phenomenology
  • The Digital Image
  • Virtual Space and Interactive Images
  • 5 The Mass Media and the Public Sphere
  • Critiques of the Mass Media
  • The Mass Media and Democratic Potential
  • Television and the Question of Sponsorship
  • Media and the Public Sphere
  • New Media Cultures
  • 6 Consumer Culture and the Manufacturing of Desire
  • Consumer Society
  • Commodity Culture and Commodity Fetishism
  • Addressing the Consumer
  • Images and Text
  • Envy, Desire, and Glamour
  • Belonging and Difference
  • Bricolage and Counter-Bricolage
  • The Brand
  • Anti-ad Practices
  • 7 Postmodernism and Popular Culture
  • Modernism
  • Postmodernism
  • Reflexivity
  • The Copy, Pastiche, and Institutional Critique
  • Popular Culture: Parody and Reflexivity
  • Addressing the Postmodern Consumer
  • 8 Scientific Looking, Looking at Science
  • Images as Evidence
  • Scientific Looking
  • Images in Biomedicine: Sonograms and Fetal Personhood
  • Scientific Images as Advocacy and Politics
  • Vision and Truth
  • Genetics and the Digital Body
  • Popular Science
  • 9 The Global Flow of Visual Culture
  • Television Flow: From the Local to the Global
  • The Critique of Cultural Imperialism
  • Markets of the Third World
  • Alternative Circulations: Hybrid and Diasporic Images
  • The Internet: Global Village or Multinational Corporate Marketplace?
  • The World Wide Web as Private and Public Sphere
  • The Challenge of the Internet to Privacy, Censorship, and Free Speech
  • The Place of the Visual in the New Millennium
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Each chapter ends with Notes and Further Readings

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Lisa Cartwright is Associate Professor of English and of Visual and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Rochester.

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