Image studies: Theory and practice
"Image Studies provides an engaging introduction to visual studies analysis and an account of existing and emergent visual culture debates, along with chapters on a range of topics, including: consumer culture and identity; photography and digital imaging; painting and drawing; the moving image; the relationship between image and text (including reference to text in art, comics and animation); and scientific imaging. Written in an engaging and accessible way, the text will also include extracts…
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- Full title :Image studies : Theory and practice / Sunil Manghani.
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"Image Studies provides an engaging introduction to visual studies analysis and an account of existing and emergent visual culture debates, along with chapters on a range of topics, including: consumer culture and identity; photography and digital imaging; painting and drawing; the moving image; the relationship between image and text (including reference to text in art, comics and animation); and scientific imaging. Written in an engaging and accessible way, the text will also include extracts of existing critical materials. Each chapter will include key set readings, including short extracts from existing literatures with accompanying study notes and questions. The chapters will also include a range of critical and creative tasks, designed to bring the academic study of visual culture into direct contact with practical aspects of visual culture and image-making. Image Studies is a new text aimed predominantly at undergraduate students in visual culture, but which will also be useful for media studies students and arts students more generally"--
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxix, 271 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415573399, 0415573394, 9780415573405, 0415573408, 9780203134917, 0203134915
- oclc:ocn659750852
- LC Classification:P93.5
- Dewey Decimal:302.2/2
Table of Contents
PART 1: DEFINING IMAGES -- 1. Beyond semiotics ; Supplement I: Just what is it that makes images so different? -- 2. Understanding images ; Supplement II: Image research -- 3. Image and text ; Supplement III: Writing with images -- PART 2: IMAGE PRACTICES -- 4. Drawing and painting -- 5. Photography -- 6. Visual culture -- 7. Scientific imaging -- 8. Image and information -- 9. Afterword: Image studies in the making.
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