Visual culture : the reader

Indhold: Cultures of the visual (Rhetorics of the image (Norman Bryson: The natural attitude. Roland Barthes: Rhetoric of the image ; Myth today. Victor Burgin: Art, common sense and photography)). (Techniques of the visible (Michel Foucault: Panopticism. Walter Benjamin: The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. Susan Sontag: The image-world. Guy Debord: Separation perfected. Dick Hebdige: The bottom line on planet one: squarring up to The face)). Regulating photographic meanings (Theorizing photography (Simon Watney: On the institutions of photography ; Pierre Bourdieu: The social definition of photography. Allan Sekula: Reading on archive: photography between labour and capital. Rosalind Krauss: Photography's discursive spaces)). (Institutions and practices in photography (Douglas Crimp: The museum's old, the library's new subject. Abigal Solomon-Godeau: Living with contradictions: critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics. John Tagg: Evidence, truth and order: a means of surveillance. Jessica Evans: Feeble monsters: making up disabled people ; Don Slater: Marketing mass photography)). Looking and subjectivity (Theoretical perspectives (Louis Althusser: Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (notes towards an investigation). Sigmund Freud: Fetishism. Otto Fenichel: The scoptophilic instinct and identification. Kaja Silvaman: The subject. Elizabeth Cowie: Fantasia. Homi K. Bhabha: The other question: the stereotype and colonial discourse)). (Gendering the gaze (Laura Mulvey: Visual pleasure and narrative cinema. Jackie Stacey: Desperately seeking difference ; Jane Gaines: White privilege and looking relations: race and gender in feminist film theory. Jacqueline Rose: Sexuality in the field of vision)). ("Seeing" racial difference (Frantz Fanon: The fact of blackness. Mary Louise Pratt: Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America. Kobena Mercer: Reading racial fetishism: the photograps of Robert Mapplethorpe. Mary Ann Doane: Dark continents: epistemologies of racial and sexual difference in psychoanalysis in the cinema. Richard Dyer: White)).