Visual Culture Revisited
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Visual Culture Revisited

German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture(s)

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Visual Culture Revisited

German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture(s)

About this book

Is there one visual culture or are there multiple visual cultures? On the one hand, it is obvious that images do not exist and cannot be understood independently. Rather, they are embedded in institutions and cultural contexts. This common ground suggests an understanding of visual culture as a singular phenomenon. On the other hand the plurality of pictorial representations - from Sitcoms to illustrations in childrens' books, from cartoons to satellite photos, from high art to everyday life - suggests the conception of visual culture as a singular phenomenon to be misleading. The visual world is a field of conflict and tension between self and other, mainstream and counterculture.The articles in this book include both theoretical reflections on the dialectics of visual culture(s) as well as case studies. The focus lies on examples from the U.S. American context - from the focusing on Native Americans as the 'Vanishing Race' in the 19th-century Photography to the TV coverage of the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster in February, 2003. This book is therefore highly recommendable to both students and scholars of American Studies als well as those interested in the interdisciplinary debate on visual culture(s).

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Yes, you can access Visual Culture Revisited by Ralf Adelmann, Andreas Fahr, Ines Katenhusen, Nic Leonhardt, Dimitri Liebsch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Media Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9783869621739
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Preface
  4. I. Production of Knowledge in Visual Culture
  5. Dimitri Liebsch
  6. Pictorial Turn and Visual Culture
  7. Ralf Adelmann
  8. Digital Visualizations and the Production of Knowledge in Television News
  9. Jessica Buben
  10. The Psychedelic Sewing Room
  11. II. Politics of Pictures
  12. Janusz Kazmierczak
  13. The Politics of the Visual in the American Alternative Press of the 1960s
  14. Stefanie Schneider
  15. ›Stop them damned pictures!‹ – Political Cartoons, Visual Culture and the Construction of Anglo-American Relations
  16. Nic Leonhardt
  17. Pictorial (Hi)stories – Illustrated Coverage of the Franco-Prussian War 1870/71
  18. Andreas Fahr
  19. Expressing the Inexpressible: u.s. and German Coverage of the School-Shootings in Littleton and Erfurt
  20. III. Imaginary Discourses – Discourses of the Image
  21. Walter C. Metz
  22. From Plato’s Cave to bin Laden’s: The ›Worst Sincerity‹ of Ron Howard’s The Missing (2003)
  23. Bettina Lockemann
  24. Constructing the World: Documentary Photography in Artistic Use
  25. Claudia Olk
  26. Vagueness, Vision, and the Veil – Perceptual Indeterminacy in Modernist Fiction
  27. Ines Katenhusen
  28. The ›Living Museum‹: The Work of Alexander Dorner (1893-1957)
  29. Birgit Däwes
  30. James Luna, Gerald Vizenor, and the ›Vanishing Race‹: Native American Performative Responses to Hege(mne)monic Image Construction
  31. V. Image, Identity, and Alterity
  32. Ingrid Gessner
  33. Erasure and Visual Recovery: Displaying Japanese American Internment Experiences
  34. Steven Hoelscher
  35. Photography as Social and Economic Encounter: The Visual Culture of Nineteenth-Century Native American Pictures
  36. Geneviève Susemihl
  37. The Visual Construction of the North American Indian in the World of German Children
  38. Contributors
  39. Index
  40. fahr2007_impressum.pdf