The right to look
Subtitle: a counterhistory of visuality
By: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780822348955; 9780822349181
Subjects: Mass media and world politics; Political aspects; Communication and culture; Visual communication; Mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Oversight : the ordering of slavery; title: The modern imaginary : anti-slavery revolutions and the right to existence; title: Visuality : authority and war; title: Abolition realism : reality, realisms, and revolution; title: Imperial visuality and countervisuality, ancient and modern; title: Anti-fascist neorealisms : North-South and the permanent battle for Algiers; title: Global counterinsurgency and the crisis of visuality.