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

By:

Sturken, Marita, 1957- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Cartwright, Lisa, 1959- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0198742711
9780198742715

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

701.03 22

LOC classification:

N72.S6 S78 2001

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Contents:

1. Practices of looking: images, power, and politics -- 2. Viewers make meaning -- 3. Spectatorship, power, and knowledge -- 4. Reproduction and visual technologies -- 5. The mass media and the public sphere -- 6. Consumer culture and the manufacturing of desire -- 7. Postmodernism and popular culture -- 8. Scientific looking, looking at science -- 9. The global flow of visual culture.

Summary: "Ideal for students studying visual culture for the first time, Practices of Looking explores the ways we use and understand images. Truly interdisciplinary, this comprehensive and engaging introduction can be used in courses across a range of disciplines including media and film studies, communications, art history, and photography. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright look at the diverse range of recent approaches to visual analysis and lead students through key theories on visual culture, providing explanations of the fundamentals of these theories and also presenting visual examples of how they function. Using over 180 illustrations, they examine how images--paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, news images, the Internet, digital images, and images from science--gain meaning in different cultural arenas, from art and commerce to science and the law. The images are analyzed in relation to a range of cultural and representational issues (desire, power, the gaze, bodies, sexuality, and ethnicity) and methodologies (semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonial theory)."--Publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	701.03 STU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A283693B
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	701.03 STU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A407981B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Ideal for students studying visual culture for the first time, Practices of Looking explores the ways we use and understand images. Truly interdisciplinary, this comprehensive and engaging introduction can be used in courses across a range of disciplines including media and film studies, communications, art history, and photography. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright look at the diverse range of recent approaches to visual analysis and lead students through key theories on visual culture, providing explanations of the fundamentals of these theories and also presenting visual examples of how they function. Using over 180 illustrations, they examine how images--paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, news images, the Internet, digital images, and images from science--gain meaning in different cultural arenas, from art and commerce to science and the law. The images are analyzed in relation to a range of cultural and representational issues (desire, power, the gaze, bodies, sexuality, and ethnicity) and methodologies (semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonial theory)."--Publisher description.

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