Practices of Looking：An Introduction to Visual Culture

作者: Marita Sturken , Lisa Cartwright

出版社: Oxford University Press

出版时间: 2009-01

ISBN: 9780195314403

装帧: 其他

开本: 其他

纸张: 其他

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>哲学心理学

Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher Marita Sturken is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Lisa Cartwright is Professor of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California at San Diego. CHAPTER 1: IMAGES, POWER, AND POLITICS
Representation
The Myth of Photographic Truth
Images and Ideology
How We Negotiate the Meaning of Images
The Value of Images
Image Icons
CHAPTER 2: VIEWERS MAKE MEANING
Producers' Intended Meanings
Aesthetics and Taste
Collecting, Display, and Institutional Critique
Reading Images as Ideological Subjects
Encoding and Decoding
Reception and the Audience
Appropriation and Cultural Production
Re-appropriation and Counter-Bricolage
CHAPTER 3: MODERNITY: SPECTATORSHIP, POWER, AND KNOWLEDGE
The Subject in Modernity
Spectatorship
Discourse and Power
The Gaze and the Other
The Gaze in Psychoanalysis
Gender and the Gaze
Changing Concepts of the Gaze
CHAPTER 4: REALISM AND PERSPECTIVE: FROM RENAISSANCE PAINTING TO DIGITAL MEDIA
Visual Codes and Historical Meaning
Questions of Realism
The History of Perspective
Perspective and the Body
The Camera Obscura
Challenges to Perspective
Perspective in Digital Media
CHAPTER 5: VISUAL TECHNOLOGIES, IMAGE REPRODUCTION, AND THE COPY
Visual Technologies
Motion and Sequence
Image Reproduction: The Copy
Walter Benjamin and Mechanical Reproduction
The Politics of Reproducibility
Copies, Ownership, and Copyright
Reproduction and the Digital Image
CHAPTER 6: MEDIA IN EVERYDAY LIFE
The Masses and Mass Media
Media Forms
Broadcast, Narrowcast, and Webcast Media
The History of Mass Media Critiques
Media and Democratic Potential
Media and the Public Sphere
National and Global Media Events
Contemporary Media and Image Flows
CHAPTER 7: ADVERTISING, CONSUMER CULTURES, AND DESIRE
Consumer Societies
Envy, Desire, and Belonging
Commodity Culture and Commodity Fetishism
Brands and Their Meanings
The Marketing of Coolness
Anti-ads and Culture Jamming
CHAPTER 8: POSTMODERNISM, INDIE MEDIA, AND POPULAR CULTURE
Postmodernism and its Visual Cultures
Addressing the Postmodern Subject
Reflexivity and Postmodern Identity
Pastiche, Parody, and the Remake
Indie Media and Postmodern Approaches to the Market
Postmodern Space, Geography, and the Built Environment
CHAPTER 9: SCIENTIFIC LOOKING, LOOKING AT SCIENCE
The Theater of Science
Images as Evidence: Cataloguing the Body
Imaging the Body's Interior: Biomedical Personhood
Vision and Truth
Imaging Genetics
The Digital Body
Visualizing Pharmaceuticals
CHAPTER 10: THE GLOBAL FLOW OF VISUAL CULTURE
The Global Subject and the Global Gaze
Cultural Imperialism
Global Branding
Concepts of Globalization
Visuality and Global Media Flow
Indigenous and Diasporic Media
Borders and Franchises: Art and the Global
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Illustration
内容简介:
Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher
作者简介:
Marita Sturken is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Lisa Cartwright is Professor of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California at San Diego.
目录:
CHAPTER 1: IMAGES, POWER, AND POLITICS
Representation
The Myth of Photographic Truth
Images and Ideology
How We Negotiate the Meaning of Images
The Value of Images
Image Icons
CHAPTER 2: VIEWERS MAKE MEANING
Producers' Intended Meanings
Aesthetics and Taste
Collecting, Display, and Institutional Critique
Reading Images as Ideological Subjects
Encoding and Decoding
Reception and the Audience
Appropriation and Cultural Production
Re-appropriation and Counter-Bricolage
CHAPTER 3: MODERNITY: SPECTATORSHIP, POWER, AND KNOWLEDGE
The Subject in Modernity
Spectatorship
Discourse and Power
The Gaze and the Other
The Gaze in Psychoanalysis
Gender and the Gaze
Changing Concepts of the Gaze
CHAPTER 4: REALISM AND PERSPECTIVE: FROM RENAISSANCE PAINTING TO DIGITAL MEDIA
Visual Codes and Historical Meaning
Questions of Realism
The History of Perspective
Perspective and the Body
The Camera Obscura
Challenges to Perspective
Perspective in Digital Media
CHAPTER 5: VISUAL TECHNOLOGIES, IMAGE REPRODUCTION, AND THE COPY
Visual Technologies
Motion and Sequence
Image Reproduction: The Copy
Walter Benjamin and Mechanical Reproduction
The Politics of Reproducibility
Copies, Ownership, and Copyright
Reproduction and the Digital Image
CHAPTER 6: MEDIA IN EVERYDAY LIFE
The Masses and Mass Media
Media Forms
Broadcast, Narrowcast, and Webcast Media
The History of Mass Media Critiques
Media and Democratic Potential
Media and the Public Sphere
National and Global Media Events
Contemporary Media and Image Flows
CHAPTER 7: ADVERTISING, CONSUMER CULTURES, AND DESIRE
Consumer Societies
Envy, Desire, and Belonging
Commodity Culture and Commodity Fetishism
Brands and Their Meanings
The Marketing of Coolness
Anti-ads and Culture Jamming
CHAPTER 8: POSTMODERNISM, INDIE MEDIA, AND POPULAR CULTURE
Postmodernism and its Visual Cultures
Addressing the Postmodern Subject
Reflexivity and Postmodern Identity
Pastiche, Parody, and the Remake
Indie Media and Postmodern Approaches to the Market
Postmodern Space, Geography, and the Built Environment
CHAPTER 9: SCIENTIFIC LOOKING, LOOKING AT SCIENCE
The Theater of Science
Images as Evidence: Cataloguing the Body
Imaging the Body's Interior: Biomedical Personhood
Vision and Truth
Imaging Genetics
The Digital Body
Visualizing Pharmaceuticals
CHAPTER 10: THE GLOBAL FLOW OF VISUAL CULTURE
The Global Subject and the Global Gaze
Cultural Imperialism
Global Branding
Concepts of Globalization
Visuality and Global Media Flow
Indigenous and Diasporic Media
Borders and Franchises: Art and the Global
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Illustration

查看详情

Practices of Looking：An Introduction to Visual Culture

内容简介:

作者简介:

目录: