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The visual culture reader / edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xix, 737 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0415252229 (pbk.):
  • 9780415252225 (pbk.)
  • 0415252210 (hbk.)
  • 9780415252218
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NX458 .V58 2002
Contents:
Introductions/Provocations/Conversations -- 1. The Subject of Visual Culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 2. Studying Visual Culture / Irit Rogoff -- 3. Narrativizing Visual Culture: Towards a Polycentric Aesthetics / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam -- 4. Kino-I, Kino-World: Notes on the Cinematic Mode of Production / Jonathan L. Beller -- 5. Showing Seeing: A Critique of Visual Culture / W. J. T. Mitchell -- 6. Conversations in Visual Culture / Raiford Guins, Joanne Morra, Marquard Smith and Omayra Cruz -- Plug-in theory -- Introduction to Plug-in Theory / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 7. Optics / Rene Descartes -- 8. The Fetishism of the Commodity / Karl Marx -- 9. Double Consciousness / W. E. B. Dubois -- 10. What is a Picture? / Jacques Lacan -- 11. The Fact of Blackness / Frantz Fanon -- 12. Woman in a Mirror / Marshall McLuhan -- 13. Rhetoric of the Image / Roland Barthes -- 14. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses / Louis Althusser -- 15. The Society of the Spectacle / Guy Debord -- 16. Simulacra and Simulations / Jean Baudrillard -- 17. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis and the Heterosexual Matrix / Judith Butler -- 18. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers / N. Katherine Hayles -- Pt. 1. Global/Digital -- Introduction to Part One / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 19. Here and Now / Arjun Appadurai -- 20. Remaking Passports: Visual Thought in the Debate on Multiculturalism / Nestor Garcia Canclini -- 21. Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness / Kobena Mercer -- 22. The Multiple Viewpoint: Diaspora and Visual Culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 23. Gender, Race and Nation in Japanese Contemporary Art and Criticism / Lisa Bloom -- 24. Of Other Spaces / Michel Foucault -- 25. Spectres of Cyberspace / Geoffrey Batchen -- 26. Othering Space / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- 27. ’Where Do You Want to Go Today?’ Cybernetic Tourism, The Internet, and Transnationality / Lisa Nakamura -- 28. Eden by Wire: Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape / Thomas J. Campanella -- 29. Satellite and Cyber Visualities: Analyzing ’Digital Earth’ / Lisa Parks -- Pt. 2. Spectacle and Display -- Introduction to Part Two / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 30. Historical Citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies: Frederick Wiseman Comes to Western Australia / Toby Miller -- 31. Visual Stories / Ann Reynolds -- 32. The Great Un-American Numbers Game / Andrew Ross -- 33. The Wall, the Screen and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Marita Sturken -- 34. The Prison House of Culture: Why African Art? Why the Guggenheim? Why Now? / Michele Wallace -- 35. Videotech / John Fiske -- 36. The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Flaneur/Flaneuse / Anne Friedberg -- 37. What Is Digital Cinema? / Lev Manovich -- 38. Film and the Digital in Visual Studies: Film Studies in the Era of Convergence / Lisa Cartwright -- 39. Kung Fu Cinema and Frugality / May Joseph -- 40. The Video Public Sphere / David Joselit -- 41. Reload: Liveness, Mobility and the Web / Tara McPherson -- Pt. 3. Visual Colonialism/Visual Transculture -- Introduction to Part Three / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 42. Visual Regimes of Colonization: Aboriginal Seeing and European Vision in Australia / Terry Smith -- 43. Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order / Timothy Mitchell -- 44. Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising / Anne McClintock -- 45. From the Colonial Harem / Malek Alloula -- 46. Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade / Suzanne Preston Blier -- 47. ’His Master’s Obi’: Machine Magic, Colonial Violence, and Transculturation / Jill H. Casid -- 48. Passing for White, Passing for Black / Adrian Piper -- 49. The Other History of Intercultural Performance / Coco Fusco -- 50. Photography and the Substance of the Image / Olu Oguibe -- 51. Engendering New Worlds: Allegories of Rape and Reconciliation / Oriana Baddeley -- Pt. 4. The Gaze, the Body and Sexuality -- Introduction to Part Four / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 52. Ideal Masculinities: An Anatomy of Power / Anthea Callen -- 53. The Forbidden Gaze: Women Artists and the Male Nude in Late Nineteenth-Century France / Tamar Garb -- 54. Reduplicative Desires / Carol Mavor -- 55. The Third Body: Patterns in the Construction of the Subject in Gay Male Narrative Film / Thomas Waugh -- 56. Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and Fashion Imagery / Reina Lewis -- 57. The Transgender Gaze in Boys Don’t Cry / Judith Halberstam -- 58. The Persistence of Vision / Donna Haraway -- 59. On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body / Anne Balsamo -- 60. Dispersed Subjects and the Demise of the ’Individual’: 1990s Bodies In/As Art / Amelia Jones.
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Introductions/Provocations/Conversations -- 1. The Subject of Visual Culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 2. Studying Visual Culture / Irit Rogoff -- 3. Narrativizing Visual Culture: Towards a Polycentric Aesthetics / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam -- 4. Kino-I, Kino-World: Notes on the Cinematic Mode of Production / Jonathan L. Beller -- 5. Showing Seeing: A Critique of Visual Culture / W. J. T. Mitchell -- 6. Conversations in Visual Culture / Raiford Guins, Joanne Morra, Marquard Smith and Omayra Cruz -- Plug-in theory -- Introduction to Plug-in Theory / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 7. Optics / Rene Descartes -- 8. The Fetishism of the Commodity / Karl Marx -- 9. Double Consciousness / W. E. B. Dubois -- 10. What is a Picture? / Jacques Lacan -- 11. The Fact of Blackness / Frantz Fanon -- 12. Woman in a Mirror / Marshall McLuhan -- 13. Rhetoric of the Image / Roland Barthes -- 14. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses / Louis Althusser -- 15. The Society of the Spectacle / Guy Debord -- 16. Simulacra and Simulations / Jean Baudrillard -- 17. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis and the Heterosexual Matrix / Judith Butler -- 18. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers / N. Katherine Hayles -- Pt. 1. Global/Digital -- Introduction to Part One / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 19. Here and Now / Arjun Appadurai -- 20. Remaking Passports: Visual Thought in the Debate on Multiculturalism / Nestor Garcia Canclini -- 21. Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness / Kobena Mercer -- 22. The Multiple Viewpoint: Diaspora and Visual Culture / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 23. Gender, Race and Nation in Japanese Contemporary Art and Criticism / Lisa Bloom -- 24. Of Other Spaces / Michel Foucault -- 25. Spectres of Cyberspace / Geoffrey Batchen -- 26. Othering Space / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- 27. ’Where Do You Want to Go Today?’ Cybernetic Tourism, The Internet, and Transnationality / Lisa Nakamura -- 28. Eden by Wire: Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape / Thomas J. Campanella -- 29. Satellite and Cyber Visualities: Analyzing ’Digital Earth’ / Lisa Parks -- Pt. 2. Spectacle and Display -- Introduction to Part Two / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 30. Historical Citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies: Frederick Wiseman Comes to Western Australia / Toby Miller -- 31. Visual Stories / Ann Reynolds -- 32. The Great Un-American Numbers Game / Andrew Ross -- 33. The Wall, the Screen and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Marita Sturken -- 34. The Prison House of Culture: Why African Art? Why the Guggenheim? Why Now? / Michele Wallace -- 35. Videotech / John Fiske -- 36. The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Flaneur/Flaneuse / Anne Friedberg -- 37. What Is Digital Cinema? / Lev Manovich -- 38. Film and the Digital in Visual Studies: Film Studies in the Era of Convergence / Lisa Cartwright -- 39. Kung Fu Cinema and Frugality / May Joseph -- 40. The Video Public Sphere / David Joselit -- 41. Reload: Liveness, Mobility and the Web / Tara McPherson -- Pt. 3. Visual Colonialism/Visual Transculture -- Introduction to Part Three / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 42. Visual Regimes of Colonization: Aboriginal Seeing and European Vision in Australia / Terry Smith -- 43. Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order / Timothy Mitchell -- 44. Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising / Anne McClintock -- 45. From the Colonial Harem / Malek Alloula -- 46. Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade / Suzanne Preston Blier -- 47. ’His Master’s Obi’: Machine Magic, Colonial Violence, and Transculturation / Jill H. Casid -- 48. Passing for White, Passing for Black / Adrian Piper -- 49. The Other History of Intercultural Performance / Coco Fusco -- 50. Photography and the Substance of the Image / Olu Oguibe -- 51. Engendering New Worlds: Allegories of Rape and Reconciliation / Oriana Baddeley -- Pt. 4. The Gaze, the Body and Sexuality -- Introduction to Part Four / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 52. Ideal Masculinities: An Anatomy of Power / Anthea Callen -- 53. The Forbidden Gaze: Women Artists and the Male Nude in Late Nineteenth-Century France / Tamar Garb -- 54. Reduplicative Desires / Carol Mavor -- 55. The Third Body: Patterns in the Construction of the Subject in Gay Male Narrative Film / Thomas Waugh -- 56. Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and Fashion Imagery / Reina Lewis -- 57. The Transgender Gaze in Boys Don’t Cry / Judith Halberstam -- 58. The Persistence of Vision / Donna Haraway -- 59. On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body / Anne Balsamo -- 60. Dispersed Subjects and the Demise of the ’Individual’: 1990s Bodies In/As Art / Amelia Jones.

Previous ed.: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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