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Ten years after the last edition, this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Visual Culture Reader highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. It assembles key new writings, visual essays and specially commissioned articles, emphasizing the...
To Be Published July 9th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Popular Culture and World Politics
Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining paintings, films, music and literature in light of...
To Be Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts
Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at work by Dara...
To Be Published August 21st 2012 by Routledge
Series: AFI Film Readers
This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of color on the...
To Be Published August 28th 2012 by Routledge
This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design. New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed...
To Be Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Discourses of Law
The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film. From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia, film, in particular, has been...
To Be Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
Series: International Library of Sociology
Contemporary society and culture are increasingly described in terms of change, mobility and vitality. Within this context, the body is seen as a key site of transformation. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a...
To Be Published October 29th 2012 by Routledge
Crime and the Urban Imagination investigates the practices of street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Street art has become a highly significant part of the ways in which people shape their urban surroundings. Cities are engaged in a continual...
To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
It could be argued that visual studies, at its best, is the place where assumptions about framing, reliability, voice, institutionalization, identity, and the subject positions of scholars are at their most open. An anthology or reader should not just theorize that flux: it should enact it, and...
To Be Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
Image Studies offers an engaging introduction to visual and image studies. In order to better understand images and visual culture the book seeks to bridge between theory and practice; asking the reader to think critically about images and image practices, but also simultaneously to make images and...
To Be Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
