Visual Culture: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

Abstract

'Visual Culture: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies' aims to map both the contemporary field of Visual Culture Studies and its historical genealogies. Its objectives are: first, to chart the emergence of Visual Culture Studies, while engaging critically with its central achievements. Second, to create an historical and theoretical genealogy of visual culture, and provide foundational primary and secondary texts. Third, to include a ‘case study’ in each of the four volumes, offering hands-on pedagogic opportunities for readers to reflect critically upon the interdisciplinary nature of visual culture. In achieving these objectives, Volume I examines ‘What Is Visual Culture Studies’ and includes texts by academics in the field such as Stuart Hall, Michael Ann Holly, and Nicholas Mirzoeff. Volume II offers the ‘Histories, Archaeologies and Genealogies of Visual Culture’ from, for instance, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid and Vitruvius through to Augustine, Avicenna, Hildegard of Bingen, as well as Alberti, Vasari, Descartes, Newton, and the modern thinkers Kant, Marx, Freud, Fanon and Bhabha. Volume III considers the many ‘Spaces of Visual Culture’, from the modern spaces analysed by Bentham, Nochlin, Simmel, Alloula, Foucault and Krauss; to the global spaces as examined by Said, Spivak, Baudrillard, Hardt and Negri. Volume IV provides an understanding of the ‘Experiences of Visual Culture’ including a genealogy from Classical vision through to digital cinema, as well as a consideration of the modalities of vision by, for instance, Ginzburg, Trinh Minh-ha, McLuhan, and Mulvey.

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