This series has been designed to offer students and researchers a compact means of orientation in their study of Anglophone literary texts. Each volume will introduce readers to current concepts and methodologies, as well as academic debates, by combining theory with text analys…
"In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual …
"By looking at photographic practices and photographs from the origins of photography to today's selfies, Snapchat, and Google Street View, this book offers a fresh philosophical understanding of how photography has become an intrinsic condition of the human"--
" ... proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore, our bodies.: -- B…
Ikonische Kommunikation ist Conditio sine qua non zeitgenössischer Social-Media-Anwendungen. Speziell die mobile Mediensoftware Instagram kann als eines der global bedeutendsten kulturellen Produktionsmittel der Gegenwart gelten. Ihre medienstrukturelle Konzeption - insbesondere…
Introduction : Beirut in the Global Sixties : Design, Politics and Translocal Visuality - Dislocating the Nation : Mediterraneanscapes in Lebanon's Tourist Promotion - The Hot Third World in the Cultural Cold War : Modernism, Arabic Literary Journals and US Counterinsurgency - T…
"There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and aesthetics of optical media: namely, the field of the three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image. It has been widely used in the 20th century for very different practices - military, scientific and medical visual…
