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A Concise Companion to Visual Culture
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Overview
The Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to Visual Culture brings together original research by both established scholars and new voices in the dynamic field, exploring the history, current state, and possible future directions of visual cultural studies. Organized as a series of non-traditional keyword essays, this innovative volume engages readers with a diversity of ideas and perspectives to broaden and enrich their understanding of visual culture and its operations.
This accessible, reader-friendly volume begins with a brief introduction to the history and practices of visual studies, featuring interviews and conversations with key figures such as W.J.T. Mitchell and Douglas Crimp. The majority of the text explores key concepts within a broad framework of history, ecologies, mediations, agencies, and politics while placing particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity and intersectionality. Essays cover keyword topics including Identities, Representation, Institutions, Architectures, Memes, Environment, Temporality, and many more. Offering a unique approach to the subject, this timely resource:
- Presents new work from a diverse group of scholars with a broad range of social, cultural, and generational perspectives
- Emphasizes the importance of activism and political urgency in humanities scholarship
- Discusses engaging objects and discourses beyond film and art, such as architecture, video games, political activism, and the nonhuman
- Highlights the diverse and interconnecting elements of visual culture scholarship
- Includes case studies and short introductions that provide context and reinforce core concepts
The Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to Visual Culture is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, film studies, and media studies.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781119415527 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 07/08/2025 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies |
Pages: | 452 |
Product dimensions: | 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Aubrey Anable is Associate Professor of Film Studies, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect. Her research on digital media history and aesthetics, video games, and theories of affect has appeared in the Feminist Media Histories, Afterimage, Television & New Media, Ada, and various edited collections.
Catherine Zuromskis is Associate Professor, School for Photographic Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. She is the author of Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images and The Factory. Her writings on photography, film, and visual culture have appeared in American Quarterly, Archives of American Art Journal, Art Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, Photography & Culture, Criticism, and various edited volumes.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiNotes on Contributors xiii
Introduction 1A. Joan Saab, Aubrey Anable, and Catherine Zuromskis
Part I Scenes from the Institutionalization of the Field
1 Practices of Visual Culture Pedagogy 9Lisa Cartwright and Marita Sturken
2 Horizontal Thinking and the Emergence of Visual Culture 21Louis Kaplan
3 An Interview with W. J. T. Mitchell 39
4 A Conversation with Douglas Crimp 45
5 A Dialogue 51Richard Meyer and Jon Davies
6 Scene Selection: Objects Lost and Found 67Sharon Willis
Part II Key Concepts
A. Histories
Introduction 79A. Joan Saab
7 The Archive 81Jane Blocker
8 Observance 97Marquard Smith
9 Temporality 117Joel Burges
10 Ephemerality 137Kate Palmer Albers
B. Ecologies
Introduction 155Catherine Zuromskis
11 Environment 157Ross Barrett
12 Architectures 177Irene Cheng
13 Sites 201Norman Vorano
14 Vernaculars 221James J. Hodge
C. Mediation
Introduction 239Aubrey Anable
15 The Document 241Franny Nudelman
16 Form 259Eugenie Brinkema
17 Play 277Braxton Soderman
18 Memes 295Margot Bouman
D. Agencies
Introduction 313A. Joan Saab
19 Subjects 315Eve Meltzer
20 Making 335Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson
21 Institutions 357Sarah E. K. Smith
22 Species 375Gloria C. S. Kim
E. Politics
Introduction 391Catherine Zuromskis
23 The Social 393Lane Relyea
24 Identities 403Derek Conrad Murray
25 Representation 421Chad Elias
26 Feelings 441Scott C. Richmond
27 Action 459T. J. Demos
Index 477