{"product_id":"modern-french-visual-theory-9780719081309","title":"Modern French Visual Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers approachable, clear and original accounts of French thinkers who specialise in visual theory, with connections explained and explicated between chapters; looks at those thinkers who have been neglected in the Anglo-American world thereby expanding and diversifying the perception that readers have -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll in all, the volume overall is a magnificent achievement of conceptual organization, careful and coordinated management of a large team of expert contributors, and high editorial standards in general. A work highly-recommended for all specialist readers interested in French thought on the visual.\u003cbr\u003e, Hugh Dauncey, Newcastle University, Contemporary French Civilization, 11 May 2015\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Nigel Saint and Andy Stafford\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. Precursors: Phenomenology and Semiotics\u003cbr\u003e1. ‘Merleau-Ponty: The Madness of Vision’ (Nathalie Aubert)\u003cbr\u003e2. ‘Christian Metz: Constructing Meaning in Film’ (Martine Joly)\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. New Art Histories and Genealogies\u003cbr\u003e3. ‘Daniel Arasse’s Joyful Visual Science: In the Intimacy of History and Art’ (Ralph Dekoninck)\u003cbr\u003e4. ‘Dream Perspectives: Hubert Damisch, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Art History’ (David Packwood)\u003cbr\u003e5. ‘Christine Buci-Glucksmann: the Archaeology of Shadows or the Aesthetics of Image-Flux’ (François-Xavier Gleyzon)\u003cbr\u003ePart 3. Representation, Mediology and Sociology\u003cbr\u003e6. ‘Louis Marin’s Theories of Representation: between Text and Image, from Visuality to Figurability’ (Agnès Guiderdoni)\u003cbr\u003e7. ‘Transmission versus Communication: Régis Debray’s Mediology’ (Andy Stafford)\u003cbr\u003e 8. ‘Value, Meaning, Method: Nathalie Heinich’s Sociological Perspectives on Visual Culture’ (Shirley Jordan)\u003cbr\u003ePart 4. Memory, Body, Image\u003cbr\u003e9. ‘Seeing and Touching: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Ground of the Image’ (Ian James)\u003cbr\u003e10. ‘Georges Didi-Huberman: Images, Critique and Time’\u003cbr\u003e(Nigel Saint)\u003cbr\u003e11. ‘Jean-Louis Schefer: The Body of the Image’ (Patrick ffrench)\u003cbr\u003ePart 5. The Digital Era\u003cbr\u003e12. ‘Jean Baudrillard’ (Paul Hegarty)\u003cbr\u003e13. ‘Real Time: Bernard Stiegler and the Politics of Digitalization (Arthur Bradley)\u003cbr\u003ePart 6. Afterword\u003cbr\u003e14. Interview with Bernard Vouilloux (Saint and Stafford)\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884278624599,"sku":"9780719081309","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-french-visual-theory-9780719081309","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}