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Visual culture : an introduction / John Walker & Sarah Chaplin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1997.Description: 288p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780719050206 (pbk.) :
  • 9780719050190 (hbk.) :
  • 9780719050206
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.103 WAL
Incomplete contents:
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.
Summary: The only guide at present written specifically for undergraduates, this book offers an introduction to the expanding realm of visual culture.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 700.103 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 202547

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.

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