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Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture Paperback – 1 April 2001

by Marita Sturken (Author), Lisa Cartwright (Contributor)
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This comprehensive and engaging introduction to visual culture provides an overview of a range of theories about how we understand visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to experience pleasure, and to learn. Using over 175 illustrations, Professors Sturken and Cartwright examine how images - paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, news images, the Internet, digital images, and science images - gain meaning in different cultural arenas, from art and commerce to science and the law, how they travel globally and in distinct cultures, and how they are an integral and important aspect of our lives. These 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). Practices of Looking provides an explanation of the fundamentals of these theories while presenting visual examples of how they function. Central concepts 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, among others, are explained in depth and in accessible, informative language. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright provide the best introductory book for students coming to the study of visual culture for the first time. Truly interdisciplinary, this book aims to be the key text for courses across a range of disciplines including media and film studies, art history, photography, and communication media.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press BPS; First Edition (1 April 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198742711
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198742715
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm
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    Lisa Cartwright is a professor in communication, science studies, and critical gender studies at the University of California at San Diego. She works across visual culture studies, disability studies, STIM (science, technology, information and medicine), and American cultural studies. She is working on books about film animation and the moving body; wind and power in the state of Kansas; and landscape photography, performance art, and the built environment in Southern California.

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Barbara
5.0 out of 5 stars First rate book
Reviewed in the United States on 30 September 2014
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This book is part of a course I am taking. You never know what book will impact you forever. This one did that for me. It was interesting reading and demanded that you think about the world and how constructs are created all around you without you ever giving it a thought.
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Krissi
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 April 2014
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I bought this book while I was studying and writing my dissertation and this is the best book ever when concerning photographic visual culture. Recommend to anyone who'd like to read and learn more into depth about photography. Fast delivery. Great seller!
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"pixy142"
5.0 out of 5 stars 難しいことを簡単に
Reviewed in Japan on 2 September 2002
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Ｖｉｓｕａｌ　Ｃｕｌｔｕｒｅのテキストみたいな本。テクノロジーの発達などで日々複雑になっているテーマを基礎から分かりやすく解説。
『こんなにわかりやすくていいのかね？？』と罪悪感すら持ってしまうのは私だけではないはず。でも、わかりやすいってことはいいことなんです！！著者二人の参考文献をみると納得！複雑に絡まった糸を段々と解いていく感じ。Art, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology,興味のある分野はなんであれ、ぜひぜひっていう１冊です！
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great book for visual culture
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Manuela
5.0 out of 5 stars very interesting!
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The book give a good level of information on the topic and has helped me a lot with the writing of my essay. It came in perfect conditions even if second hand. Very pleased!
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