The visual culture reader / edited, with introductions by Nicholas Mirzoeff.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is visual culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff
  • Studying visual culture / Irit Rogoff
  • Narrativizing visual culture : towards a polycentric aesthetics / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
  • Optics / René Descartes
  • Scopic regimes of modernity / Martin Jay
  • Rhetoric of the image / Roland Barthes
  • Modernity and the spaces of femininity / Griselda Pollock
  • The Modern Art Museum / Carol Duncan
  • On collecting art and culture / James Clifford
  • A topographical amnesia / Paul Virilio
  • Woman in a mirror / Marshall McLuhan
  • Visual stories / Ann Reynolds
  • From The practice of everyday life / michel de Certeau
  • Videotech / John Fiske
  • The wall, the screen and the image : the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Marita Sturken
  • The persistence of vision / Donna Haraway
  • Science and the cinema / Lisa Cartwright
  • Reading the slender body / Susan Bordo
  • On the cutting edge : cosmetic surgery and the technological production of the gendered body / Anne Balsamo
  • Of other spaces / Michel Foucault
  • The camera obscura and its subject / Jonathan Crary
  • The mobilized and virtual gaze in modernity : flaneur/flaneuse / Anne Friedberg
  • From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador / Mary-Louise Pratt
  • Spectres of cyberspace / Geoffrey Batchen
  • Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell
  • Soft-soaping empire : commodity racism and imperial advertising / Anne McClintock
  • From The colonial harem / Malek Alloula
  • Vodun art, social history and the slave trade / Suzanne Preston Blier
  • Art of darkness : black art and the problem of belonging to England / Paul Gilroy
  • Representing whiteness : seeing Wings of Desire / bell hooks
  • The gangsta and the diva / Andrew Ross
  • Passing for white, passing for black / Adrian Piper
  • The other history of intercultural performance / Coco Fusco
  • Remaking passports : visual thought in the debate on multiculturalism / Néstor García Canclini
  • Engendering new worlds : allegories of rape and reconciliation / Oriana Baddeley
  • Ideal masculinities : and anatomy of power / Anthea Callen
  • The forbidden gaze : women artists and the male nude in late nineteenth-century France / Tamar Garb
  • Prohibition, psychoanalysis and the heterosexual matrix / Judith Butler
  • The third body : patterns in the construction of the subject in gay male narrative film / Thomas Waugh
  • Gender is burning : questions of appropriation and subversion / Judith Butler
  • Looking good : the lesbian gaze and fashion imagery / Reina Lewis
  • From The female nude : art, obscenity and sexuality / Lynda Nead
  • 'Penguin in bondage' : a graphic tale of Japanese comic books / Sandra Buckley
  • Idol thoughts : orgasm and self-reflexivity in gay pornography / Richard Dyer.
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