This fascinating examination of visual experience offers an explanation and assessment of the traditional means of analyzing visual culture. Most of our experience is visual--we obtain most of our information and knowledge through sight, whether from reading books and newspapers, from watching television, or from quickly glimpsing road signs. Many of our judgments and decisions...(展开全部)

This is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of visual culture from painting to the computer and television screen. It will prove indispensable to students of art and art history as well as students of cultural studies. Mirzoeff begins by defining what visual culture is, and explores how and why visual media - fine art, cinema, the Internet, adv...(展开全部)

This text presents and dicusses a variety of graphics used in transmitting information, analyzing signs, graphs and charts through a method similar to that found in Edward Tufte's books, "Envisioning Information" and "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" - both texts that have been seen to have had considerable influence on late-20th-century graphic designers. Includ...(展开全部)

This innovative collection of essays offers exciting new research and thoughtful reflection on the subject of visual culture and its relationship to art history. Brings together innovative scholarship by major scholars. Engages with cross-cultural questions, asking if attention to visual culture is a western preoccupation. Draws on a wide range of cultures, locations and hist...(展开全部)

Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher and understand the many ways that our everyday lives are organized around looking practices and the many images we encounter ...(展开全部)

Practices of Looking, Third Edition, bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The third edition has been updated to represent the contemporary visual cultural landscape and includes topics like the increasingly rapid global circulation of m...(展开全部)

Story's 5th edition of this market leading textbook provides an engaging, clear and coherent introduction to cultural theory through popular culture. * Extensively revised, rewritten and updated to offer better value and a wider knowledge base for the student * Improved and expanded content throughout including: New chapter on ‘Race’, racism and representation New sections on T...(展开全部)

Story's 5th edition of this market leading textbook provides an engaging, clear and coherent introduction to cultural theory through popular culture. * Extensively revised, rewritten and updated to offer better value and a wider knowledge base for the student * Improved and expanded content throughout including: New chapter on ‘Race’, racism and representation New sections on T...(展开全部)

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by a wide range of examples from various periods and countries, the authors strive to help students develop a core set of an...(展开全部)