Eight years after it was first published, Photography: A Critical Introduction still has no direct competitor. Carefully structured, it identifies key debates in photographic theory, is user-friendly and is ideal for stimulating discussion and evaluation of the critical use of photographic images and ways of seeing. This new edition retains the thematic structure and text featu...(展开全部)

摄影不仅是一种人造之物，能够以不同的方式在不同的情况下被人使用；摄影还是特定情境中的一系列实践活动。《摄影批判导论(第4版)》为读者介绍了摄影学的概念性议题，并对摄影的思考方式进行了总体的阐述。《摄影批判导论(第4版)》的基本宗旨是介绍摄影领域中的关键性学术论辩，以及为读者提供相关的信息与资料，从而使读者能够进行相关的调查研究。所以，从本质上来讲，这本书主要为读者提供了关于如何阅读摄影图像的知识，提高读者对影像艺术的解读能力。 与众不同的是，《摄影批判导论(第4版)》并没有提供年鉴式的枯燥的摄影史，而是以当代摄影实践的议题为焦点来讨论以往的相关看法与见解、技术的局限性以及其社会政治背景。换言之，作者将摄影学观点的发展与某个领域的实践联系起来阐述，并以这些特定的重点领域作为每章的主题。读者将在本书中了解到以下内容：摄影观念论、观察者与被观察者、个人摄影...(展开全部)

Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses, this fully revised edition provides...(展开全部)

This major new introduction to comparative literature is for the students coming to the subject for the first time. Through an examination of a series of case studies and new theoretical developments, Bassnett reviews the current state of comparative literature world--wide in the 1990s. In the past twenty years of a range of new developments in critical theory have changed patt...(展开全部)

Introduces the interdisciplinary importance of Michel Serres (1930-2019) across the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences Author of some 70 books and an 'immortal' member of the Académie française, Michel Serres has produced an inimitable cross-disciplinary body of work. His scholarship contributes to current debates in post-humanism, object-oriented ontology, ecologic...(展开全部)

New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies...(展开全部)

"Nevertheless, the author has reduced what is complex to a very readable level that will be of utility to students of geography and the history of science. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." ("Choice", 1 October 2013) “Cresswell’s introduction to Geographic Thought is everything such a book should be: open and honest, wise and witty, accessible a...(展开全部)

Geographic Thought An accessible and engaging introduction to geographic thought In the newly expanded Second Edition of Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction, renowned scholar Tim Cresswell delivers a thoroughly up-to-date and accessible examination of the major thinkers and key theoretical developments in the field. Coverage of the complete range of the development of t...(展开全部)

About the Author Tim Cresswell is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Place: A Short Introduction (2004) and On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (2006). He has also co–edited four collections, including Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects (2011).