Visual Culture provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines, including four editorial essays which place the readings in their historical and theoretical context. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this reader puts issues of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at center stage.
Visual Culture provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines, including four editorial essays which pl...
A primary resource of key statements on photographic meaning, representation and visual culture. The editors combine classic and contemporary essays from a range of scholars including Barthes, Sontag, Baudrillard and Mulvey. The reader is divided into three parts, which present the culture of the image and the making of meaning; the history and theory of critical photography and the regulation of meaning; and the way in which differences of race, class, gender and sexuality are culturally constructed and represented. Black and white illustrations feature throughout.
A primary resource of key statements on photographic meaning, representation and visual culture. The editors combine classic and contemporary essays f...
"At one point I thought of myself as a Black person and that limits me because as a Black person there are things that I am suppose d] to be. So I had to shed that. I am not just Black. I am a woman, and that limits me as well. But, ]...if I think that I am limited then I don't dare risk anything or try to do anything. So 'bust' being Black and 'bust' being a woman...." -- Margaret, a student at Maple Heights Elusive Culture is a fascinating ethnographic study of youth engaged in a passionate quest for identity in global times. It explores questions of identity and culture at a Toronto...
"At one point I thought of myself as a Black person and that limits me because as a Black person there are things that I am suppose d] to be. So I had...
