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Concerned with visual culture, this text considers: concepts of "culture"; concepts of "the visual"; visual culture as a field of studies and the origins of visual culture studies; theory of culture; and visual culture and commerce.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Concepts of Culture
2. The Concept of the Visual
3. Visual Culture as a Field of Studies, 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
Appendix: Modular Schemes
Bibliography
Index

Visual Culture An Introduction

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    Publisher: Manchester University Press
    Publication Date: 10/30/1997 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780719050206, 978-0719050206
    ISBN10: 0719050200
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Concerned with visual culture, this text considers: concepts of "culture"; concepts of "the visual"; visual culture as a field of studies and the origins of visual culture studies; theory of culture; and visual culture and commerce.

    Table of Contents

    Preface
    Introduction
    1. Concepts of Culture
    2. The Concept of the Visual
    3. Visual Culture as a Field of Studies, 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
    Appendix: Modular Schemes
    Bibliography
    Index

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