Practices of looking : an introduction to visual culture / Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright.
This comprehensive introduction to visual culture provides an overview of a range of theories about how we understand visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to experience pleasure, and to learn.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Images, power, and politics
- Viewers making meaning
- Modernity : spectatorship, power, and knowledge
- Realism and perspective : from Renaissance painting to digital media
- Visual technologies, image reproduction, and the copy
- Media in everyday life
- Advertising, consumer cultures and desire
- Postmodernism, Indie media and popular culture
- Scientific looking, looking at science
- Global flow of visual culture.