TY - BOOK AU - Sturken,Marita AU - Cartwright,Lisa TI - Practices of looking: an introduction to visual culture SN - 0198742711 AV - N72.S6 S78 2001 U1 - 701.03 22 PY - 2001///] CY - Oxford ; New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Art and society KW - Culture KW - Visual perception KW - Visual communication KW - Popular culture KW - Communication and culture N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2001021099-b.html ER -