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Author: James Elkins
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0271050640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how images, pictures, and paintings are conceptualized. Issues discussed include concepts such as "image" and "picture" in and outside the West; semiotics; whether images are products of discourse; religious meanings; and the ethics of viewing"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Michael P. Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-05
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1317909070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988, lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in French, English, and seven other languages including Japanese and Russian. It incorporates and corrects where necessary all information from earlier published bibliographies of Lacan’s work. Also included as background works are books and essays that discuss Lacan in the course of a more general study, as well as all relevant items in various bibliographic sources from many fields.
Author: Michael P. Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-05
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 1317909089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988, lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in French, English, and seven other languages including Japanese and Russian. It incorporates and corrects where necessary all information from earlier published bibliographies of Lacan’s work. Also included as background works are books and essays that discuss Lacan in the course of a more general study, as well as all relevant items in various bibliographic sources from many fields.
Author: Jonathan Bignell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780719045011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing examples such as the Wonderbra advertisements and the film Waterworld, Bignell presents an investigation of the critical approach to contemporary media studies and discusses the challenges posed by post-structuralist theory and postmodernism.
Author: Robert Goldman
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1996-05-21
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781572300347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTelevision has become so saturated with commercials that it is difficult at times to tell the different images apart, much less remember or care about them. But, on closer look, television commercials can tell us a great deal about the interplay of market forces, contemporary culture, and corporate politics. This book views contemporary ad culture as an ever-accelerating war of meaning. The authors show how corporate symbols or signs vie for attention-span and market share by appropriating and quickly abandoning diverse elements of culture to differentiate products that may be in themselves virtually indistinguishable. The resulting "sign wars" are both a cause and a consequence of a media culture that is cynical and jaded, but striving for authenticity. Including more than 100 illustrations and numerous examples from recent campaigns, this book provides a critical review of the culture of advertising. It exposes the contradictions that stem from turning culture into a commodity, and illuminates the impact of television commercials on the way we see and understand the world around us.
Author: Peggy Phelan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415068222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts - including photography, painting, film and theatre.
Author: Rebecca Arnold
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780813529042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon both contemporary visual and written sources, this book illuminates the role that fashion plays in reflecting and shaping attitudes toward display and adornment. As traditional cultural notions of what is admissible or acceptable have fragmented, fashion has been a key site for experimentation. At both the haute couture and street level, clothing enables identities to be visualized, confronting the spectator with contradictory messages embodying the confusion of the time.Rebecca Arnold focuses on the last thirty years and places the desires and anxieties that surround fashion in their historical context. She highlights four key themes: -- Status, Power, and Display (the flaunting of wealth, the alienating power structures of good taste), -- Violence and Provocation (the rising tide of aggression in both fashion imagery and street styles), -- The Eroticized Body (the power of sex and display and the pressure to conform to ideals), and -- Gender and Subversion (the blurring of identity to disguise and confuse).This richly illustrated book always keeps its focus on the historical and ethical potential and possibilities that modern fashion embodies.
Author: Jennifer A. Sandlin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-28
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1135237115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistinguished international scholars from a wide range of disciplines explore consumption and its relation to learning, identity development, and education. This volume is unique within the literature of education in its examination of educational sites – both formal and informal – where learners and teachers are resisting consumerism and enacting a critical pedagogy of consumption.
Author: Barbara Howard
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 2024-10-31
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0334066301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps one of the least appreciated aspects of Rowan Williams is his theology of imagination. Seeking to fill this gap, this book explores the imaginative impulse operative in Rowan Williams’ theology and poetry, which centres around the notion of ‘divine desire’, and the way in which imagination can reveal possibility even in the bleakest of circumstances. Drawing on his poetic work as well as his theological writing, the book explores how Williams’ theology leads us to a fresh understanding of the ways in which the renewing and enabling energy of the Holy Spirit is ever active, within and beyond the Church, in enabling human imaginations to cooperate with the divine energy of love in bringing creation to fulfilment.
Author: M. W. Smith
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2001-09-06
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780791450642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the ways in which our culture has increasingly become a culture of simulations, and offers strategies for discerning meaning in a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has collapsed.
