Visual Cultures and Critical Theory

by Kelli Wagner Patrick Fuery,Kelli Fuery

We live in a world of the image. In many ways images have replaced words as the defining aspect of cultural identity, while at the same time they have become part of our global culture. The rapidly developing discipline of visual cultural studies has become the key area for examining the
issues of the image. Visual Cultures and Critical Theory provides students with a clear guide for understanding ideas of critical theory through the visual. Taking up a range of themes such as spectatorship, pleasure, power, doubles, hallucination, and the frame, the book explains them within the
context of the theoretical developments in psychoanalysis, cultural theory, postmodernism, Queer theory, gender studies, and narrative theory.

256 pages, Unknown Binding

First published July 31, 2003

Reviews

[Kate · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a great textbook. A lot of the theories that are mentioned in the textbooks are really far fetched and don't really apply to pictures. I found that in some places they explain things really well and in other places it just doesn't make sense. I also wished that they would have put in the photographs that they were talking about instead of just putting up a link as to where I could find them. It was just meh. I probably wouldn't bother reading it unless you needed to for a class.