Visual worlds
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Bibliographic Information
Visual worlds
(International library of sociology)
Routledge, 2005
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the emergence of new tools and conventions. Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume contains a collection of essays by internationally renowned artists and scholars from a variety of fields (including art history, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, film and television studies, intellectual history and sociology). It was conceived to address a bold query: how is our experience and understanding of vision and visual form changing under pressure from the various social, economic and cultural factors that are linked under the term 'globalization'.
The essays overlap in their considerations of the tensions between cultures and worlds, political life, everyday social experience, and war. The resulting conversation that develops between the chapters touches on points from many visual worlds, and provides a unique opportunity for considering the changing character of visual experience today.
This book will attract readers from a wide range of academic disciplines and will especially be valuable as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in visual culture and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Visual Cultures and Visual Worlds Part 1: Cultures Political Culture 1. Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation 2. Televisual Popular Politics: Diana and Democracy 3. Manufacturing Dissent: Challenges for Activism and Alternative Voices in the Post 9/11 World Visual Culture 4. Art at the Intersection of Social Fields 5. Heart of Darkness: A Journey into the Dark Matter of the Art World 6. Primetime Art as Seen on Melrose Place Part 2: Worlds Social Worlds 7. Electronic Habitus Agit-Prop in an Imaginary World 8. Los Angeles as Visual World: Media, Seeing and the City 9. Photography's Decline into Modernism: In praise of 'Bad' Photographs 10. Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs) Warring Worlds 11. Witness to Surrender 12. Under Siege: Mona Hatoum's Art of Displacement 13. Mea Culpa: On Residual Culture and the Turn to Ethics Epilogue Visual Worlds, after 9/11
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