CONTENT
Illustrations
Acknowledgement
Contributors
Critical Approaches to the Study of Visual Culture: An Introduction to the Handbook
PART ONE: HISTORY AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Editorial Introduction
1. Major Theoretical Frameworks in Visual Culture / Margaret Dikovitskaya (PhD from Columbia University, USA)
2. Toward a New Visual Studies and Aesthetics: Theorizing the Turns / Catherine M. Soussloff (University of British Columbia, Canada)
3. Scopic Regimes of Modernity Revisited / Martin Jay (University of California, USA)
4. Phenomenology and its Shadow: Visuality in the Late Work of Merleau-Ponty / Michael Gardiner (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
5. Hermeneutical Aesthetics and an Ontogeny of the Visual / Nicholas Davey (University of Dundee, UK)
PART TWO: ART AND VISUALITY
6. Visual Culture and Contemporary Art: Reframing the Picture / Recasting the Object? Robin Marriner (Bath Spa University, UK)
7. Beyond Museology: Reframing the Sensorium / Donald Preziosi (UCLA, USA)
8. Cubism and the Iconic Turn: A Climate of Practice, the Object and Representation / Ian Heywood (Lancaster University, UK)
9. Reframing Nature: The Visual Experience of Early Mountaineering / Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University, UK)
10. The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture / Martin Irvine (Georgetown University, USA)
PART THREE: AESTHETICS, POLITICS AND VISUAL CULTURE
11. Sociology of the Spectacle: Politics, Terror, Desire / Roy Boyne (Executive Editorial Board, Theory, Culture and Society)
12. Art, Feminism and Visual Culture / Lisa Cartwright (University of California, USA)
13. Visual Consciousness: the Impact of New Media on Literate Culture / Nancy Roth (University College Falmouth, UK)
14. The 'Dictatorship of the Eye': Henri Lefebvre on Vision, Space and Modernity / Michael Gardiner (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
15. Cubist Collage and Visual Culture: Representation and Politics / Ian Heywood (Lancaster University, UK)
PART FOUR: PRACTICES AND INSTITUTIONS OF VISUAL CULTURE
16. Looking Sharp: Fashion Studies / Malcolm Barnard (Loughborough University, UK)
17. Seeing Things: Apprehending Material Culture / Tim Dant (University of Lancaster, UK)
18. Photography and Visual Culture / Fiona Summers (Lancaster University, UK)
19. Television as a Global Visual Medium / Kristyn Gorton (University of York, UK)
20. Film and Visual Culture / Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England, UK)
21. Pragmatic vision: connecting aesthetics, materiality and culture in landscape architectural practice / Kathryn Moore (Consultant, USA)
22. Images and Information in Cultures of Consumption / Martin Hand (Queen's University, Canada)
PART FIVE: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF VISUAL CULTURE
23. The Question of Method: Practice, Reflexivity and Critique in Visual Culture Studies / Gillian Rose (The Open University, UK)
24. Digital Art and Visual Culture / Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK)
25. Digitalisation, Visualisation and the 'Descriptive Turn' in Contemporary Sociology / Roger Burrows (University of York, UK)
26. Action-based Visual and Creative Methods in Social Research / David Gauntlett and Fatimah Awan (both University of Westminster, UK)
27. Neuroscience and the Nature of Visual Culture / John Onians, Helen Anderson and Kajsa Berg (all University of East Anglia, UK)
28. Re-Visualizing Anthropology through the Lens of The Ethnographer's Eye / David Howes (Concordia University, Canada)
29. Seven Theses on Visual Culture: Toward a Critical-Reflexive Paradigm for the New Visual Studies / Barry Sandywell (University of York, UK)
30. Mapping the Visual Field: A Bibliographical Guide / Barry Sandywell (University of York, UK)
Index