Full Description
Theory has become increasingly significant in the field of the visual, giving rise to a whole discipline of 'visual culture' situated within the disciplines of media/communication/cultural studies and also within history of art. This book aims to offer a clear exposition of their ideas and how they have been used in visual cultural studies.
Contents
Investing in power and the body - Foucault and the visual; seeing the self in the Baroque mirror - Lacan and the visual; transgression, abjection and the body - Kristeva abd the visual; from parasitology to spectres - Derrida and the visual; spectator, culture, image - Barthes and the visual; invisibility and hallucination - the state of the image in the postmodern world.