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Visual culture

About: Visual culture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3698 publications have been published within this topic receiving 52080 citations.


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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: Researching Visual Objects: Visual Culture, Visual Pleasure, Visual Disruption Discourse analysis I Text, Intertext, Context Discourse Analysis II Institutions and Ways of Seeing Audience Studies Studying How Television Gets Watched An Anthropological Approach Directly Observing the Social Life of Visual Objects Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project Photo-Elicitation, Photo-Documentation and Other Uses of Photos Visual Methodologies A Review
Abstract: Researching Visual Objects A Critical Visual Methodology How To Use This Book 'The Good Eye' Looking at Pictures Using Compositional Interpretation Content Analysis Counting What You (Think) You See Semiology Laying Bare the Prejudices beneath the Smooth Surface of the Beautiful Psychoanalysis Visual Culture, Visual Pleasure, Visual Disruption Discourse Analysis I Text, Intertext, Context Discourse Analysis II Institutions and Ways of Seeing Audience Studies Studying How Television Gets Watched An Anthropological Approach Directly Observing the Social Life of Visual Objects Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project Photo-Elicitation, Photo-Documentation and Other Uses of Photos Visual Methodologies A Review

1,556 citations

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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the social effects of visual materials, focusing on three criteria for a critical visual methodology: the three sites of production, the image itself and its audience: the Site of Production, the Image Itself and its Audiencing.
Abstract: Chapter 1: Researching with Visual Materials - A Brief Survey An Introductory Survey of 'the Visual' Understanding the Social Effects of Visual Materials Three Criteria for a Critical Visual Methodology Chapter 2: Towards a Critical Visual Methodology The Three Sites of Production, the Image Itself and Its Audiencing The Site of Production The Site of the Image The Site of Audiencing Chapter 3: How to Use This Book Reading This Book Selectively on the Basis of Sites and Modalities Reading This Book Selectively on the Basis of Having Found Some Images Why you Should Also Read Books Other Than This One How Each Chapter Works A Quick Word on Finding Your Images Another Quick Word, on Referencing and Reproducing Your Images Chapter 4: 'The Good Eye': Looking at Pictures Using Compositional Interpretation Compositional Interpretation: An Introduction Doing Compositional Interpretation: Technologies and the Production of the Image Doing compositional interpretation: The compositionality of the Image Itself Compositional Interpretation: An Assessment Chapter 5: Content Analysis: Counting What You (Think You) See Content Analysis: An Introduction Four Steps to Content Analysis Content Analysis: An Assessment Chapter 6: Semiology: Laying Bare the Prejudices beneath the Smooth Surface of the Beautiful Semiology: An Introduction Choosing Images for a Semiological Study The Sign and its Meaning-Making Processes in Mainstream Semiology Making Meaning Socially: Social Semiotics Semiology: An Assessment Chapter 7: Psychoanalysis: Visual Culture, Visual Pleasure, Visual Disruption Psychoanalysis and Visuality: An Introduction A Longer Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Visuality: Subjectivity, Sexuality and the Unconscious How is Sexual Difference Visual 1: Watching Movies with Laura Mulvey How is Sexual Difference Visual 2: From the Fetish to Masquerade From the Voyeuristic Gaze to the Lacanian Gaze: Other Ways of Seeing From the Disciplines of Subjection to the Possibilities of Fantasy Queer Looks Reflexivity Psychoanalysis and Visuality: An Assessment Chapter 8: Discourse Analysis: Text, Intertextuality, Context Discourse and Visual Culture: An Introduction An Introduction to Discourse Analysis I and Discourse Analysis II Finding Your Sources for a Discourse Analysis I Discourse Analysis I: The Production and Rhetorical Organization of Discourse Discourse Analysis I And Reflexivity Discourse Analysis I: An Assessment Chapter 9: Discourse Analysis II: Institutions and Ways of Seeing Another Introduction to Discourse and Visual Culture Finding Your Sources for Discourse Analysis II The Apparatus of the Gallery and the Museum The Technologies of the Gallery and Museum The Visitor Discourse Analysis II: An Assessment Chapter 10: To Audience Studies and Beyond: Ethnographies of Television Audiences, Fans and Users Audience Studies: An Introduction Audiences, Fans and Users Audience Studies Researching Audiences and Fans Ethnographies of Visual Objects Ethnographic Studies of Audiencing: An Assessment Chapter 11: Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project: Photo-Documentation, Photo-Elicitation and Photo-Essays Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project: An Introduction Photo-Documentation Photo-Elicitation Photo-Essays Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project: An Assessment Chapter 12: Ethics and Visual Research Methods An Introduction to Research Ethics and Visual Materials Consent, Anonymity, Copyright Consent Anonymity Copyright Conclusions: Ethics, Visual Research and Contemporary Visual Culture Chapter 13: Visual Methodologies: A Review Introduction Sites, Modalities and Methods Mixing Methods Useful Reading on Various Visual Materials List of Key Terms

1,003 citations

Book
01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the history of the modern world from al-Haytham to the present day: "Sight Becomes Vision: From al Haytham, to Perspective" and "1492": Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters.
Abstract: Preface Introduction 1. Sight Becomes Vision: From al-Haytham to Perspective 2. '1492': Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters 3. Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture 4. Panoptic Modernity 5. Imperial Transcultures: From Kongo to Congo 6. Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences 7. Inventing the West 8. Decolonizing Vision 9. Discrete States: Digital Worlds From the Difference Engine to Web 2.0 10. The Death of 'The Death of Photography' 11. Celebrity: From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV 12. Watching War.

836 citations

Book
01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: What Do Pictures Want? as discussed by the authors explores the idea of pictures as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. But it does not address the question of why we behave as if pictures are alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray.
Abstract: Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep--who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream of creating a living image--and the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, which, among other things, signifies a new and virulent form of iconoclasm. What Do Pictures Want? offers an immensely rich and suggestive account of the interplay between the visible and the readable. A work by one of our leading theorists of visual representation, it will be a touchstone for art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and philosophers alike. "A treasury of episodes--generally overlooked by art history and visual studies--that turn on images that 'walk by themselves' and exert their own power over the living."--Norman Bryson, Artforum

823 citations

Book
01 Feb 2001
TL;DR: The Global Flow of Visual Culture Glossary Index as mentioned in this paper is a glossary of visual culture glossaries that focus on images, power, and politics in the Mass Media and the Public Sphere.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Practices of looking: Images, Power, and Politics 2. Viewers Make Meaning 3. Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge 4. Reproduction and Visual Technologies 5. The Mass Media and the Public Sphere 6. Consumer Culture and the Manufacturing of Desire 7. Postmodernism and Popular Culture 8. Scientific Looking, Looking at Science 9. The Global Flow of Visual Culture Glossary Index

720 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202347
2022157
202162
2020149
2019145
2018168