| Edition |
English ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 792 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
The handbook embraces the extraordinary range of disciplines which now engage the study of the visual -- film and photography, television, fashion, visual arts, digital media, geography, philosophy, architecture, material culture, sociology, cultural studies and art history. Throughout, the Handbook is responsive to the cross-disciplinary nature of many of the key questions raised in visual culture around digitization, globalization, cyberculture, surveillance, spectacle, and the role of art. |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Dedication; Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Critical Approaches to the Study of Visual Culture: An Introduction to the Handbook; Part One: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; Editorial Introduction; 1 Major Theoretical Frameworks in Visual Culture; 2 Towards a New Visual Studies and Aesthetics: Theorizing the Turns; 3 Scopic Regimes of Modernity Revisited; 4 Phenomenology and Its Shadow: Visuality in the Late Work of Merleau-Ponty; 5 Hermeneutical Aesthetics and an Ontogeny of the Visual; Part Two: Art and Visuality. |
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13 Visual Consciousness: The Impact of New Media on Literate Culture14 The 'Dictatorship of the Eye': Henri Lefebvre on Vision, Space and Modernity; 15 Cubist Collage and Visual Culture: Representation and Politics; Part Four: Practices and Institutions of Visual Culture; Editorial Introduction; 16 Looking Sharp: Fashion Studies; 17 Seeing Things: Apprehending Material Culture; 18 Photography and Visual Culture; 19 Television as a Global Visual Medium; 20 Film and Visual Culture; 21 Pragmatic Vision: Connecting Aesthetics, Materiality and Culture in Landscape Architectural Practice. |
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22 Images and Information in Cultures of ConsumptionPart Five: Developments in the Field of Visual Culture; Editorial Introduction; 23 The Question of Method: Practice, Reflexivity and Critique in Visual Culture Studies; 24 Digital Art and Visual Culture; 25 Digitalization, Visualization and the 'Descriptive Turn' in Contemporary Sociology; 26 Action-based Visual and Creative Methods in Social Research; 27 Neuroscience and the Nature of Visual Culture; 28 Re-visualizing Anthropology through the Lens of The Ethnographer's Eye. |
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29 Seven Theses on Visual Culture: Towards a Critical-Reflexive Paradigm for the New Visual Studies30 Mapping the Visual Field: A Bibliographical Guide; Name Index; Subject Index; Imprint Page. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art and society.
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Art and society. |
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Culture.
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Culture. |
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Visual perception.
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Visual perception. |
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Visual communication.
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Visual communication. |
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Popular culture.
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Communication and culture.
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Popular culture. |
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ART -- Performance. |
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Communication and culture. |
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ART -- Reference. |
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Gesellschaft. |
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Kultur. |
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Visuelle Kommunikation. |
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Visuelle Medien. |
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Visuelle Wahrnehmung. |
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Ästhetik. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Heywood, Ian, 1948-
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Sandywell, Barry.
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Gardiner, Michael E.
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Gunalan Nadarajan.
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Soussloff, Catherine M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781847885739 184788573X |
| ISBN |
1847885756 (electronic book) |
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9781847885753 (electronic book) |
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9781847885739 |
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184788573X |
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9781474294140 (online) |
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1474294146 |
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9781350026506 (electronic book) |
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1350026506 |
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