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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
      Published 10/30/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780719050206
      978-0719050206
      ISBN-10 0719050200

      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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