Practices of Looking

An Introduction to Visual Culture
3. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-026571-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 1338 g

Practices of Looking, Third Edition, bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The third edition has been updated to represent the contemporary visual cultural landscape and includes topics like the increasingly rapid global circulation of media, the rise of design and DIY cultures, digital media art and activism, and challenges to photojournalism and news media. Challenging yet accessible, Practices of Looking, Third Edition, is ideal for courses across a range of disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sturken, Marita

Cartwright, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction

- Chapter 1. Images, Power, and Politics

- Representation

- Vision and Visuality

- The Myth of Photographic Truth

- Myth, Connotation, and the Meaning of Images

- Semiotics and Signs

- Images and Ideology

- Image Icons

- Chapter 2. Viewers Make Meaning

- Producers' Intended Meanings

- Aesthetics and Taste

- Value, Collecting, and Institutional Critique

- Reading Images as Ideological Subjects

- Viewing Strategies

- Appropriation and Re-Appropriation

- Chapter 3. Modernity: Spectatorship, the Gaze, and Power

- Modernity

- Modernism

- The Concept of the Modern Subject

- Spectatorship and the Gaze

- Power and the Surveillance Gaze

- The Other

- Gender and the Gaze

- Gaming and the Gaze

- Chapter 4. Realism and Perspective: From Renaissance Painting to Digital Media

- Perspective

- Perspective and the Body

- The Camera Obscura

- Challenges to Perspective

- Perspective in Digital Media

- Chapter 5. Visual Technologies, Reproduction, and the Copy

- Visualization and Technology

- Visual Technologies

- The Reproduced Image and the Copy

- Walter Benjamin and Mechanical Reproduction

- The Politics of Reproducibility

- Ownership and Copyright

- Reproduction and the Digital Image

- 3D Reproduction and Simulation

- Chapter 6. Media in Everyday Life

- The Media, Singular and Plural

- Everyday Life

- Mass Culture and Mass Media

- Critiques of Mass Culture

- Media Infrastructures

- Media as Nation and Public Sphere

- Democracy and Citizen Journalism

- Global Media Events

- Chapter 7. Brand Culture: The Images and Spaces of Consumption

- The Rise of Brands as Image, Symbol, and Icon

- The Spaces of Modern Consumerism

- Brands in Consumer Society

- Social Awareness and the Selling of Humanitarianism

- Social Media, Consumer Data, and the Changing Spaces of Consumption

- DIY Culture and the Share Economy, and New Entrepreneurism

- Chapter 8. Postmodernism: Irony, Parody, and Pastiche

- Postmodernity/Postmodernism

- Simulation and the Politics of Postmodernity

- Reflexivity and Distanced Knowing

- Jaded Knowing and Irony

- Remix and Parody

- Pastiche

- Postmodern Space, Architecture, and Design

- Chapter 9. Scientific Looking, Looking at Science

- Opening Up the Body to the Empirical Medical Gaze

- Medicine as Spectacle: The Anatomical and Surgical

- Theater

- Evidence, Classification, and Identification

- Bodily Interiors and Biomedical Personhood

- The Genetic and Digital Body

- Visualizing Pharmaceuticals and Science Activism

- Chapter 10. The Global Flow of Visual Culture

- The History of Global Image Reproduction

- Concepts of Globalization

- The World Image

- Global Television

- The Global Flow of Film

- Social Movements, Indigenous Media, and Visual Activism

- The Global Museum and Contests of Culture

- Refugees and Borders

- Glossary

- Credits

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

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, San Diego.