In recent years, visual culture has emerged as a growing and important interdisciplinary field of study. Visual culture regards images as central to the representation of meaning in the world. It encompasses "high" art without an assumption of its higher status. But despite the current proliferation of studies and programs in visual culture, there seems to be no consensus withi...(展开全部)

-作者简介- 玛格丽特•迪科维茨卡娅（Margaret Dikovitskaya），加拿大维多利亚大学艺术史系教授。 -译者简介- 李芳，西南大学外国语学院副教授，文学博士，硕士生导师，主要从事美国文学与文化研究。 肖伟胜，男，1970年生，西南大学文学院教授、文学博士、博士生导师、副院长，主要从事西方美学与视觉文化研究。主持“‘文化转向’与视觉文化研究”、“‘语言学转向’与视觉方法论研究”、“视觉文化与图像意识研究”等多项国家社科基金重点项目、教育部人文社科项目等课题。撰有《视觉文化与图像意识》、《视觉文化与当代文化批评》、《现代性困境中的极端体验》等学术专著。曾在《文艺研究》、《文学评论》、《二十一世纪》（香港）等核心刊物发表论文60余篇，其中多篇被全文复印或转载。

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Visual Culture Reader brings together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles covering a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture. The Reader features an introductory section tracing the development of visual culture st...(展开全部)

Product Description Using a wide number of case studies Eilean Hooper-Greenhill uses a multi-disciplinary approach to analyzing museums. Drawing on material culture studies and art history she studies the collections and how they were collected; using cultural studies and sociology she examines the social and cultural role of museums today and in the past; applying deduction th...(展开全部)

Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors provide...(展开全部)

An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists who argued that social and economic life is reducible to culture―that our choices reflect interpretations of the world around...(展开全部)

Visual Culture is an introductory textbook book on visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students to the analysis of all kinds of visual texts, whether drawings, paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, television programmes or new media forms. The book is illustrated with copious e...(展开全部)

Visual Culture is an introductory textbook book on visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students to the analysis of all kinds of visual texts, whether drawings, paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, television programmes or new media forms. The book is illustrated with copious e...(展开全部)

This is a revised, expanded, and updated edition of the highly successful Visual Culture . Like its predecessor, this new version is about visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students and other interested readers to the analysis of all kinds of visual text, whether drawings, paintings,...(展开全部)