Visual worlds / 
edited by John R. Hall, Blake Stimson and Lisa Tamiris Becker. 
 - x, 262 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - International library of sociology .
 - International library of sociology. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : visual cultures and visual worlds /  Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation /  Televisual popular politics : Diana and democracy /  Manufacturing dissent : challenges for activism and alternative voices in the post-9/11 world /  Art at the intersection of social fields /  Heart of darkness : a journey into the dark matter of the art world /  Primetime art as seen on Melrose Place /  Electronic habitus : agit-prop in an imaginary world /  Los Angeles as visual world : media, seeing, and the city /  Photography's decline into modernism : in praise of "bad" photographs /  Between the net and the deep blue sea (rethinking the traffic in photographs) /  Witness to surrender /  Under siege : Mona Hatoum's art of displacement /  Mea Culpa : on residual culture and the turn to ethics /  Epilogue : visual worlds, after 9/11 /  Blake Stimson --  Lauren Berlant --  Jon Simons --  M. Kauffmann and L. Stanley --  Andrea Fraser --  Gregory Sholette --  The Gala Committee --  Jennifer Gonzalez --  Darnell M. Hunt --  Marshall Battani --  Allan Sekula --  Robin Wagner-Pacifici --  Anneke Voorhees --  Mary Kelly --  Martin Jay.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13. 
<br/><br/> "Visual Worlds was conceived to address a bold query: how, it asks, are our experience and understanding of vision and visual form changing under pressure from the various social, economic and cultural factors that are linked under the term globalization? To consider this question, the volume gathers together a diverse group of internationally renowned artists and scholars from a variety of fields including art history, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, film and television studies, intellectual history and sociology. At issue for each author is what Lauren Berlant, in the volume's first essay, calls "dense and radiant images of the politically saturated" world that are "employed as vehicles for shaping a collective sense of social belonging." The other essays overlap in their considerations of the tensions between cultures and worlds, political life and everyday social experience, peace and war. The conversation that develops between the voices represented here touches down on points arrayed across many visual worlds and provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415362121 9780415362122 0203012372 9780203012376 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005011703 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Visual sociology<br/>Visual communication--United States<br/>Visual perception.<br/>Arts and society
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM500  / .V56 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301