Visual Culture

In this book, The 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and penetrating essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting, and fine art, journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal, relation between vision and truth.

Chris Jenks

List of figures, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, 1 THE CENTRALITY OF THE EYE IN WESTERN CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION, 2 ADVERTISING: THE RHETORICAL IMPERATIVE, 3 REPORTING AND VISUALISING, 4 FRACTURED SUBJECTIVITY, 5 THE CITY, THE CINEMA: MODERN SPACES, 6 FABULOUS CONFUSION! POP BEFORE POP?, 7 AN ART OF SCHOLARS: CORRUPTION, NEGATION AND PARTICULARITY IN PAINTINGS BY RYMAN AND RICHTER, 8 WATCHING YOUR STEP: THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF THE FLANEUR, 9 REICH DREAMS: RITUAL HORROR AND ARMOURED BODIES, 10 TELEVISION: NOT SO MUCH A VISUAL MEDIUM, MORE A VISIBLE OBJECT, 11 FOUCAULT'S OPTICS: THE (IN) VISION OF MORTALITY AND MODERNITY, 12 MANAGING 'TRADITION': THE PLIGHT OF AESTHETIC PRACTICES AND THEIR ANALYSIS IN A TECHNO SCIENTIFIC CULTURE, 13 PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODERN VISION: THE SPECTACLE OF 'NATURAL MAGIC', 14 THREE IMAGES OF THE VISUAL: EMPIRICAL, FORMAL AND NORMATIVE, Index