Visual culture : an introduction / John Walker & Sarah Chaplin.
Material type: TextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1997.Description: 288p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780719050206 (pbk.) :
- 9780719050190 (hbk.) :
- 9780719050206
- 700.103 WAL
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Concepts of culture -- 2.The concepts of the visual -- 3.Visual culture as a field of study, and the origins of visual culture studies -- 4.Coping with theory -- 5.Production, distribution and consumption model -- 6.Institutions -- 7.Looks, the gaze and surveillance -- 8.Visual literacy and visual poetics -- 9.Modes of analysis -- 10.The pleasures of visual culture -- 11.The canon and concepts of value -- 12.Visual culture and commerce -- 13.New technologies.
The only guide at present written specifically for undergraduates, this book offers an introduction to the expanding realm of visual culture.