"50" Result
Sort By:
Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics. This title presents a study which sets out to put the anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo and Meiji-period painters and the post-war period animation and the manga…
Few phenomena are as formative of our experience of the visual world as displays of suffering. But what does it mean to have an ethical experience of disturbing or traumatizing images? What kind of ethical proposition does an image of pain mobilize? How may the spectator learn f…
Reflection on the history and practice of art history has long been a major topic of research and scholarship, and this volume builds on this tradition by offering a critical survey of many of the major development in the contemporary discipline, such as the impact of digital te…
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; t…
This book investigates the role of the moving image in cultural memory, taking into account the impact of digital technologies on visual culture.
In Mitchell's startling analysis, cloning terror emerges as the inevitable metaphor for the way in which the War on Terror has not only helped recruit more fighters to the jihadist cause but undermined the American constitution with 'faith-based' foreign and domestic policies. B…
An examination of operatic exoticism in various cultural contexts, such as French, Latin American and Arabic culture, followed by sections with focus on the most beloved figures in opera performance - Salome, Madame Butterfly and Ida - and performances of these operas through hi…
Children's picturebooks are the very first books we encounter, and they form an important, constantly evolving, and dynamic sector of the publishing world. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? In seven chapters, this book covers the key stages o…
