Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
 | By Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright Oxford University Press, USA, 2001, Paperback Customer Rating: 26 reviews Recommend |
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Ideal for students studying visual culture for the first time, Practices of Looking explores the ways we use and understand images. Truly interdisciplinary, this comprehensive and engaging introduction can be used in courses across a range of disciplines including media and film studies, communications, art history, and photography. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright examine the diverse range of recent approaches to visual analysis and lead students through key theories on visual culture, providing explanations of the fundamentals of these theories and presenting visual examples of how they function. Using over 175 illustrations, they examine how images — paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, news images, the Internet, digital images, and images from science — gain meaning in different cultural arenas, from art and commerce to science and the law. They also consider how these images travel globally and in distinct cultures; how they are an integral and important aspect of our lives. The images are analyzed in relation to a range of cultural and representational issues (desire, power, the gaze, bodies, sexuality, ethnicity) and methodologies (semiotics, marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonial theory). Central topics such as ideology, the concept of the spectator, the role of reproduction in visual culture, the mass media and the public sphere, consumer culture, and postmodernism are explained in depth.
Title: Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
Sales Rank: 45045 in Books
Author: Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1st edition, 2001-03-15, Paperback, 400 pages, ISBN: 0198742711
Package Dimensions: 9.88 x 6.62 x 0.73 inches, 1.74 pounds
- Remarkably Well-Written..., Exemplary Textbook..., Wide-Ranging..., Comprehensive And Compelling...
- "Marita Sturken is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California."
"Lisa Cartwright is Associate Professor of English and of Visual and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Rochester."
"a REMARKABLY WELL-WRITTEN, lucidly organized, and pedagogically astute book"
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- Make the pain stop!!!
- This was a painfully written book for an actually quite interesting topic. Bought this book for a class and enjoyed the class, just not the reading assignments as the book went on and on seemingly talking about nothing. When it would finally get to a point, it was unclear on if this was the point the author was intending or just another side… More reviews
- one of the best books about visual culture
- The authors of this book very clearly articulate the considerable factors of the visual culture in mass media and visual art. Not only the pictures cited in the texts are also quite helpful to better understand the details of description, but also more importantly this book provides knowledgeable contents and information enabling readers to be aware of the significant… More reviews
- excellent!
- This is an excellent book for anyone interested in media studies. The language is simple and articulate. The authors provide plenty of visual evidence in each chapter. If you enjoy reading about popular culture, even advertising strategies- this is the book for you. … More reviews
- Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
- I actually returned this book after leafing through it. It was a little disappointing and did not have much information other than common sense kind of info. Where was the meat?… More reviews
