Visual culture : an introduction /

Main Author: Walker, John Albert, 1938-
Other Authors: Chaplin, Sarah
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester, UK New York: Manchester University Press, 1997
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1.Concepts of ʹcultureʹ, 2.The concept of ʹthe visualʹ, 3.Visual culture as a field of study, and the origins of Visual Culture Studies, 4.Coping with theory, 5.Production, distribution and consumption model, 6.Institutions, 7.Looks, the gaze and surveillance, 8.Visual literacy and visual poetics, 9.Modes of analysis, 10.The pleasures of visual culture, 11.The canon and concepts of value, 12.Visual culture and commerce, 13.New technologies