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The Handbook of Visual Culture

Ian Heywood editor Barry Sandywell editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:1st Dec '11

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A broad international overview of research across all aspects of visual culture. Designed for graduate students and scholars as the ultimate desktop reference.

Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of analysis. Bringing together leading international scholars to assess all aspects of visual culture, the Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the subject. The Handbook embraces the extraordinary range of disciplines which now engage in the study of the visual - film and photography, television, fashion, visual arts, digital media, geography, philosophy, architecture, material culture, sociology, cultural studies and art history. Throughout, the Handbook is responsive to the cross-disciplinary nature of many of the key questions raised in visual culture around digitization, globalization, cyberculture, surveillance, spectacle, and the role of art. The Handbook guides readers new to the area, as well as experienced researchers, into the topics, issues and questions that have emerged in the study of visual culture since the start of the new millennium, conveying the boldness, excitement and vitality of the subject.

A must-have guide for non-experts or students, as well as for more experienced readers in particular, because of the multidisciplinary aspects, showing that new developments and issues are constantly raising, together with new forms of questioning belonging to the most diverse fields of knowledge. * Digicult *

ISBN: 9781847885739

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1488g

816 pages