Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision / Edition 1

by Kevin Robins

Overview

Into the Image examines visual technology sociologically and, in so doing, rejects the fashionable idea that the new visual technologies are displacing the real.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415145763
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/12/1996
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1390L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION: IMAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND VISUAL CULTURE, 1 THE TOUCH OF THE UNKNOWN, 2 THE SPACE OF THE SCREEN, 3 SIGHTS OF WAR, 4 CYBERSPACE AND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 5 CONSUMING IMAGES: FROM THE SYMBOLIC TO THE PSYCHOTIC, 6 THE CITY IN THE FIELD OF VISION, 7 WILL IMAGES MOVE US STILL?, Notes, Illustrations, Index