Reading the Visual

Schirato, Tony

ISBN 10: 1865087300 / ISBN 13: 9781865087306

Published by Routledge, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading the Visual
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1865087300
• ISBN 13: 9781865087306
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

From the body to the ever-present lens, the world is increasingly preoccupied with the visual. What exactly is the visual' and how can we interpret the multitude of images that bombard us every day?

Reading the Visual takes as its starting point a tacit familiarity with the visual, and shows how we see even ordinary objects through the frameworks and filters of culture and personal experience. It explains how to analyse the mechanisms, conventions, contexts and uses of the visual in western cultures to make sense of visual objects of all kinds.

Drawing on a range of theorists including John Berger, Foucault, Bourdieu and Crary, the authors outline our relationship to the visual, tracing changes to literacies, genres and pleasures affecting ways of seeing from the Enlightenment to the advent of virtual technology.

Reading the Visual is an invaluable introduction to visual culture for readers across the humanities and social sciences.

About the Author

Tony Schirato is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Film and Theatre at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. He is the co-author of Communication and Cultural Literacy. Jen Webb is Senior Lecturer and Director of Writing in the School of Creative Communication at the University of Canberra, Australia. They are both co-authors of Understanding Foucault and Understanding Bourdieu.