The handbook of visual culture / edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell ; with Michael Gardiner, Gunalan Nadarajan and Catherine Soussloff.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 674-764) and indexes.

Critical Approaches to the Study of Visual Culture: An Introduction to the Handbook / Barry Sandywell and Ian Heywood -- Part 1. Historical and theoretical perspectives : -- Editorial Introduction -- 1. Major Theoretical Frameworks in Visual Culture / Margaret Dikovitskaya -- 2. Toward a New Visual Studies and Aesthetics: Theorizing the Turns / Catherine M. Soussloff -- 3. Scopic Regimes of Modernity Revisited / Martin Jay -- 4. Phenomenology and its Shadow: Visuality in the Late Work of Merleau-Ponty / Michael Gardiner -- 5. Hermeneutical Aesthetics and an Ontogeny of the Visual / Nicholas Davey -- Part 2. Art and visuality : -- Editorial Introduction -- 6. Visual Culture and Contemporary Art: Reframing the Picture, Recasting the Object? / Robin Marriner -- 7. Beyond Museology: Reframing the Sensorium / Donald Preziosi -- 8. Cubism and the Iconic Turn: A Climate of Practice, the Object and Representation / Ian Heywood -- 9. Reframing Nature: The Visual Experience of Early Mountaineering / Simon Bainbridge -- 10. The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture / Martin Irvine -- Part 3. Aesthetics, politics and visual culture : -- Editorial Introduction -- 11. Sociology of the Spectacle: Politics, Terror, Desire / Roy Boyne -- 12. Art, Feminism and Visual Culture / Lisa Cartwright -- 13. Visual Consciousness: the Impact of New Media on Literate Culture / Nancy Roth -- 14. The 'Dictatorship of the Eye': Henri Lefebvre on Vision, Space and Modernity / Michael Gardiner -- 15. Cubist Collage and Visual Culture: Representation and Politics / Ian Heywood --

Part 4. Practices and institutions of visual culture : -- Editorial Introduction -- 16. Looking Sharp: Fashion Studies / Malcolm Barnard -- 17. Seeing Things: Apprehending Material Culture / Tim Dant -- 18. Photography and Visual Culture / Fiona Summers -- 19. Television as a Global Visual Medium / Kristyn Gorton -- 20. Film and Visual Culture / Andrew Spicer -- 21. Pragmatic vision: connecting aesthetics, materiality and culture in landscape architectural practice / Kathryn Moore -- 22. Images and Information in Cultures of Consumption / Martin Hand -- Part 5. Developments in the field of visual culture : -- Editorial Introduction -- 23. The Question of Method: Practice, Reflexivity and Critique in Visual Culture Studies / Gillian Rose -- 24. Digital Art and Visual Culture / Charlie Gere -- 25. Digitalisation, Visualisation and the 'Descriptive Turn' in Contemporary Sociology / Roger Burrows -- 26. Action-based Visual and Creative Methods in Social Research / David Gauntlett and Fatimah Awan -- 27. Neuroscience and the Nature of Visual Culture / John Onians, Helen Anderson and Kajsa Berg -- 28. Re-Visualizing Anthropology through the Lens of The Ethnographer's Eye / David Howes -- 29. Seven Theses on Visual Culture: Toward a Critical-Reflexive Paradigm for the New Visual Studies / Barry Sandywell -- 30. Mapping the Visual Field: A Bibliographical Guide / Barry Sandywell -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

"Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of analysis. Bringing together leading international scholars to assess all aspects of visual culture, the Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the subject."--Publisher's website.