Practices of Looking by Marita Sturken

Practices of Looking by Marita Sturken

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Serving as an introduction to visual culture, this title explores the ways we use and understand images. Bridging the analysis of art, film, new media, and scientific representation, it looks at the diverse range of approaches to visual analysis that have emerged, leading the reader through the key theories of visual culture.

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Practices of Looking by Marita Sturken

Serving as an introduction to visual culture, this title explores the ways we use and understand images. Bridging the analysis of art, film, new media, and scientific representation, it looks at the diverse range of approaches to visual analysis that have emerged, leading the reader through the key theories of visual culture.

Marita Sturken is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, teaching cultural studies, popular culture, and issues of technology and culture. She previously worked as a critic in independent film and video, and is the author of; Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS
Epidemic and the Politics of Remembering, University of California Press (1997) and Thelma and Louise, British Film Institute Modern Classics Series (2000). Lisa Cartwright is Associate Professor at the University of Rochester, and Director of the Susan B. Institute for Gender and Women's Studies.
She is the author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture and co-editor of The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science
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ISBN 13 9780198742715
ISBN 10 0198742711
Title Practices of Looking
Author Marita Sturken
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2001-04-01
Number of pages 396
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