Title: Visual cultures and critical theory /
Authors: Fuery, Patrick, 1957-; Fuery, Kelli.
Publisher: Arnold ; Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Imagery (Psychology); Visual communication Social aspects.; Critical theory
Abstract: "The role of this book is to consider the intersection between visual cultures and the most significant developments in critical theory over the last fifty years. This includes issues and concepts from psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural theory, postmodernism, feminism, Queer theory, gender studies, and narrative theory. Visual Cultures and Critical Theory aims to provide an interplay between the image and recent developments in the humanities." "Visual Cultures and Critical Theory will provide students with a clear guide for understanding ideas of critical theory through the visual."--Jacket.
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 and 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.