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 ...
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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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This was a gift to a friend who is keeping me abreast of all he has learned. He says above all what he has read thus far has empowered him to SEE!
Lawrence S
Sep 23, 2010
Bad academic book
This book has nothing to do with looking and everything to do with interpreting using dull academic frameworks with a heavy emphasis on feminism to suit the authors interests.
The Pageturner
Sep 15, 2008
Textbook is Redundant
My experience with this textbook has been a very bland one. The language is simple, but becomes confusing because the authors have made it redundant. It would be a mediocre book if there were not so many unnecessary vocabulary words for the same thing. For example, the author's bring in the terms "signs" "signifier" and "signified" which could have easily have been just "connotative" and "denotative". It is good because it thoroughly explains the Marxist theory and would be appropriate for beginning college students, Other than that, I am positive that there are better textbooks to replace this one.
