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Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall Sunil Manghani (University of Southampton, UK)

Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall By Sunil Manghani (University of Southampton, UK)

Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Sunil Manghani (University of Southampton, UK)

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Examines the use of visual image, using the event of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a contemporary case study. This work presents a critical visual theory: image critique - a dual procedure combining a focus on both analysing and interpreting images, with a consideration of how images can be used to critically examine and engage with our culture.

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Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Sunil Manghani (University of Southampton, UK)

Taking the fall of the Berlin Wall as a key marker in recent history - a period in which increasingly we find ourselves watching 'instant history' unfold live on air - the book presents a new critical concept of image critique: a double procedure of both a critique of images and the use of images as a means to engage with our contemporary mediated culture for new critical purposes. A rich array of primary sources are woven together to provide a thorough critique of the recent and lively theoretical debates about visual culture. Topics range from Francis Fukuyama's End of History thesis to metapictures, contemporary East German film and the notion of the public sphere/screen. In staking out a new critical visual theory, the book does not seek to present any straightforward analysis of visual representations of the fall of the Wall, but instead inhabits its historical and ongoing resonance as a means to situate a complex interactive account of history, politics, human action, freedom, the media and visual culture.

Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall Reviews

Sunil Manghani's Image Critique & the Fall of the Berlin Wall is the best sort of scholarly book-an intellectually grounded and theoretically adventurous critical performance. Through his concept of image critique, Manghani makes a virtue out of the many attributes of images that bedevil visual cultural studies, rightly insisting that rather than domesticating images for the tyranny of the word, scholars must do visual studies from the ground of images, in the process reconceptualizing theory and criticism. Manghani adeptly anchors his insights in close engagements with images, most notably images from the event of the fall of the Berlin Wall. If heeded, Manghani's book will change the trajectory of visual cultural studies by making critique a performance with force in the world. - Kevin DeLuca, University of Georgia. An eloquent treatment of how images shape and are shaped by their environment - by history, politics, individual and collective practice, and the media. Manghani takes us on an engaging ride through the diverse visual journeys extending from the fall of the Berlin Wall. The book enriches and alters how we can - and should - understand the Wall and its memory. - Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania Required reading for all those in visual culture - Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University Manghani's Image Critique & the Fall of the Berlin Wall is a magnificent encounter between visual images of the fall of the wall and the most sensitively acute intellectual theories about images; between the critical analysis of images and the critical thought that such images engender; between reflection as serious consideration of the fall of the wall and reflection as what happens when the images look back at us. Manghani crafts a novel form of image critique out of richly metaphorical writing, theoretical depths and carefully orchestrated images. He performs in a blend of scholarly and personal prose an edifying experience of history, visual culture and criticism. The brilliant flash of lightning that inspires this book makes music of the long roll of thunder heard in these inspiring pages. - Jon Simons, Indiana University

About Sunil Manghani (University of Southampton, UK)

Sunil Manghani is lecturer in film and television at York St John University College, United Kingdom. He is coeditor of The Image Reader.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: 'On the Sight of the Berlin Wall' - Page 31 - Sunil Manghani Chapter 2: 'The Problem of Visual Culture' - Page 67 - Sunil Manghani Chapter 3: 'The End of History?' - Page 95 - Sunil Manghani Chapter 4: 'Living without an Alternative' - Page 141 - Sunil Manghani Chapter 5: 'Public Screening: Critical Pictures of the Wall' - Page 165 - Sunil Manghani

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NLS9781841501901
9781841501901
1841501905
Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Sunil Manghani (University of Southampton, UK)
Sunil Manghani (University of Southampton, UK)
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Intellect Books
2008-09-15
272
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