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Visual Cultures and Critical Theory (Arnold Publication)

By Patrick Fuery , Kelli Fuery

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0340807482, 9780340807484, 9781417531769
LCC
BF367 .F84 2003
Open Library ID
OL22537455M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3723882 bytes)
Pages
256\156
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

We live in a world of the image. In many ways images have replaced words as the defining aspect of cultural identity, while at the same time they have become part of our global culture. The rapidly developing discipline of visual cultural studies has become the key area for examining the issues of the image. Visual Cultures and Critical Theory provides students with a clear guide for understanding ideas of critical theory through the visual. Taking up a range of themes such as spectatorship, pleasure, power, doubles, hallucination, and the frame, the book explains them within the context of the theoretical developments in psychoanalysis, cultural theory, postmodernism, Queer theory, gender studies, and narrative theory.

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