Cultures of Vision
Images, Media, and the Imaginary
Published on 22. December 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-253-20977-1 (ISBN)
Description
"This is a very strong, thought-provoking [volume] . . . " -George Marcus
As home photographs shift from the print format to digital technology and as video moves from the television screen to multimedia, it is crucial to develop new strategies of interpreting and analyzing these images.
Visit the author's World Wide Web site: (2/19/03: Link is no longer active)
http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/burnett/englishhome.html
As home photographs shift from the print format to digital technology and as video moves from the television screen to multimedia, it is crucial to develop new strategies of interpreting and analyzing these images.
Visit the author's World Wide Web site: (2/19/03: Link is no longer active)
http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/burnett/englishhome.html
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
519 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-20977-1 (9780253209771)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
12/1995
Indiana University Press
€9.49
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Person
Dr. Ron Burnett, President and Vice-Chancellor, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, is the former Director of the Graduate Program in Communications at McGill University, author of over 150 published articles and essays and of the recently published, How Images Think (MIT Press, 2005).
Content
Chapter One
Images and Vision
Chapter Two
Camera Lucida: Barthes and Photography
Chapter Three
From Photograph to Film: Textual Analysis
Chapter Four
Projection
Chapter Five
Reinventing the Electronic Image
Chapter Six
Postmodern Media Communities
Images and Vision
Chapter Two
Camera Lucida: Barthes and Photography
Chapter Three
From Photograph to Film: Textual Analysis
Chapter Four
Projection
Chapter Five
Reinventing the Electronic Image
Chapter Six
Postmodern Media Communities