Visual Cultures and Critical Theory
Published on 31. July 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-340-80748-4 (ISBN)
Description
Theory has become increasingly significant in the field of the visual, giving rise to a whole discipline of 'visual culture' situated within the disciplines of media/communication/cultural studies and also within history of art. This book aims to offer a clear exposition of their ideas and how they have been used in visual cultural studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-80748-4 (9780340807484)
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Persons
Patrick Fuery is Director of the ArtsHealth Research Centre and Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Kelli Fuery is Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Content
Investing in power and the body - Foucault and the visual; seeing the self in the Baroque mirror - Lacan and the visual; transgression, abjection and the body - Kristeva abd the visual; from parasitology to spectres - Derrida and the visual; spectator, culture, image - Barthes and the visual; invisibility and hallucination - the state of the image in the postmodern world.