The study of visual culture is interdisciplinary, deriving in part from the new art history that emerged in the 1980s, the developing studies of design and material culture, and film, as well as the concepts and methods associated with psychoanalysis, semiotics, gender, class and post-colonialism.
This collection brings together essential articles written by the most stimulating academics working in the field of Visual Studies. These texts represent both the formation of visual culture, and the ways in which it has transformed, and continues to transform, our understanding and experience...

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.