Overview

Is seeing a matter of nature? Does perspective show things as they really are? Can we read an image in the same way as a text? Reading Images draws together essays that attempt to answer these questions but in a variety of ways and from the different theoretical positions offered by psychoanalysis, semiotics, poststructuralism and postmodernism. The anthology opens up a dialogue between seeing and the seen, text and image, theory and practice. By discussing a range of visual material, from advertising and architecture to painting and photography, it crosses generic and disciplinary boundaries and suggests ways in which vision and visuality are related to questions of textuality, subjectivity, race and gender.

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Author:   Julia Thomas
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.391kg
ISBN:  

9780333765395

ISBN 10:   0333765397
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   11 September 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Perspective; R. L. Gregory Monster Metaphors: Notes on Michael Jackson's Thriller; K. Mercer The Look; R. Coward In Plato's Cave; S. Sontag Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (extract); R. Barthes The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction (extract); W. Benjamin Panopticism (extract); M. Foucault Semiology and Visual Interpretation; N. Bryson Imaging (extract); T. de Lauretis Desperately Seeking Difference; J. Stacey The Oppositional Gaze; B. Hooks Of the Gaze as Objet Petit a' (extract); J. Lacan Pornography, Nostalgia, Montage: A Triad of the Gaze (extract); S. Zizek Motherhood According to Giovanni Bellini (extract); J. Kristeva Why Peter Eisenman Writes Such Good Books; J. Derrida 'Las Meninas'; M. Foucault Aesthetic Illusion and Virtual Reality; J. Baudrillard Summaries and Notes Glossary Suggestions for Further Reading Index.

Reviews

'This book will assist in broadening students' understanding of the naturally generative nature of the visual image - well done!.' - R. Harper, University of Wales, Bangor

Author Information

JULIA THOMAS is a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.

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