This overview of modern visual culture explores the relationship between technology, society and identity which underpins contemporary `media culture'. While tracing historical shifts as they have developed through, or intersected with, different camera technologies, the book is not so much about the camera's field of vision: it is concerned with processes of modernization and the dramatic changes - perceptual, experiential, epistemological - which characterize modernity. Using the camera and its technologies as symbols of `realism', Scott McQuire interweaves: the history of visual culture from Lumiere to virtual reality by way of photography, cinema and television; the broad social and political transformations of the last 150 years; the ambivalent relationship between `image' and `reality'; and the changing relationships of time and space, particularly related to colonialism, globalization, the modern city and cyberspace available in every home.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780761953012
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-7619-5301-2
- Verlag: Sage Publications UK
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.12.1997
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 1997
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 447 g
- Seiten: 288
- Format (B x H x T): 156 x 234 x 16 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt