A Concise Companion to Visual Culture

Book Description

Provides an up-to-date overview of the present state Visual Cultural Studies, featuring new original content, topics, and methods

The Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to Visual Culture brings together original research by both established scholars and new voices in the dynamic field, exploring the history, current state, and possible future directions of visual cultural studies. Organized as a series of non-traditional keyword essays, this innovative volume engages readers with a diversity of ideas and perspectives to broaden and enrich their understanding of visual culture and its operations.

This accessible, reader-friendly volume begins with a brief introduction to the history and practices of visual studies, featuring interviews and conversations with key figures such as W.J.T. Mitchell and Douglas Crimp. The majority of the text explores key concepts within a broad framework of history, ecologies, mediations, agencies, and politics while placing particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity and intersectionality. Essays cover keyword topics including Identities, Representation, Institutions, Architectures, Memes, Environment, Temporality, and many more. Offering a unique approach to the subject, this timely resource:

• Presents new work from a diverse group of scholars with a broad range of social, cultural, and generational perspectives
• Emphasizes the importance of activism and political urgency in humanities scholarship
• Discusses engaging objects and discourses beyond film and art, such as architecture, video games, political activism, and the nonhuman
• Highlights the diverse and interconnecting elements of visual culture scholarship
• Includes case studies and short introductions that provide context and reinforce core concepts

The Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to Visual Culture is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, film studies, and media studies.

中文：

书名：视觉文化简明指南

提供视觉文化研究现状的最新概述，以新的原创内容、主题和方法为特色

这个威利·布莱克威尔简明地介绍视觉文化它汇集了动态领域内老牌学者和新声音的原创研究，探索了视觉文化研究的历史、现状和未来可能的方向。组织成一系列非传统的关键词散文，这本创新的卷吸引了具有不同想法和视角的读者，以拓宽和丰富他们对视觉文化及其运作的理解。

这本易于阅读的书以对视觉研究的历史和实践的简要介绍开始，以W.J.T.米切尔和道格拉斯·克里普等关键人物的采访和对话为特色。文本的大部分在历史、生态、调解、机构和政治的广泛框架内探索关键概念，同时特别强调跨学科和交叉性。论文涵盖了关键字主题，包括身份、表现、机构、建筑、模因、环境、临时性等。为这一主题提供了一种独特的方法，这一及时的资源：

• 呈现了来自不同学者群体的新作品，具有广泛的社会、文化和代际视角
• 强调人文科学研究中激进主义和政治紧迫感的重要性
• 讨论电影和艺术以外的引人入胜的物体和话语，如建筑、电子游戏、政治激进主义和非人类
• 突出视觉文化学术的不同和相互关联的元素
• 包括案例研究和简短介绍，提供背景并强化核心概念

这个威利·布莱克威尔简明地介绍视觉文化它是视觉研究、艺术史、电影研究和媒体研究领域的高级本科生、研究生和学者的必备读物。