Visual Culture
The Reader
"This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its major strength is its insistence on the importance of three central aspects of the study of visual culture: the sign, the institution and the viewing subject. It will provide readers, teachers and students with an essential text in visual and cultural studies." - Janet Wolff, University of Rochester
Visual Culture: The Reader provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this reader puts issues of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at centre stage.
Divided into three parts, The Culture of the Visual, Regulating Photographic Meaning, Looking and Subjectivity, this reader enables students to make hitherto unmade connections across art, film and photography history and theory, semiotics, history, semiotics and communications, media studies, and cultural theory. The key statements are from the work of:
Visual Culture: The Reader sets the agenda for the study of Visual Culture and will be an essential sourcebook for researchers and students alike.
sets the agenda for the study of Visual Culture and will be an essential sourcebook for researchers and students alike.This is the reader for the module The Image and Visual Culture (D850) - part of The Open University Masters in Social Sciences Programme.
Essential seminal reading.
Used as supplementary reading to support sessions on visual culture and the imperial gaze.
This is a comprehensive and exciting collection of essays in the field of visual culture. However, the essays are too advanced for a textbook for a first year class, even though they would serve as a great resources. As such, I have put Visual Culture: A Reader on the recommended reading list, and have request a copy for the library.
Brings together many diverse writings relating to the subject and provides the student and teacher with an invaluable resource. Great foundation text in the subject of visual culture.
Visual Culture: The Reader is a comprehensive collection of essays by top scholars. It is well written and the structure of the book is clear and easy to use in course design work. To be used as obligatory reading in my course it is too broad, for visual culture is only one of the main topics in the class. However, I am going to recommend it as a source for students' course essays, and it may be the main source for those students who decide to write about visual culture. I will also recommend the book for their masters' theses. I consider the book as a valuable source for many kind of culture-related studies.
A basic text that I recommend to any student who seeks to gain an understanding of visual culture and its development. It is not easy to read for bachelor level students at our uni. But fitting for those who want to pursue the topic of convergence culture and esp visual culture. It is significant because it enables students to connect disciplinary fields and, hopefully, to reflect on what images do to us and just how they do it.
Excellent compendium of classic texts in one location.
This is a highly impressive edition of this reader which has become a classic in the field. The essays in this book range from the canonical to the contemporary. I do think that some of the chapters have been over anthologised, so perhaps future editions could consider removing works such as Benjamin's Laura Mulvey's as these appear in virtually every reader.
Excellent publication providing the key texts on visual culture. While many readers provide texts, this one seems to be able to focus on the most relevant ones, without being too narrow.