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UNINA9910453331903321 |
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Autore |
Manghani Sunil |
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Titolo |
Image critique & the fall of the Berlin Wall [[electronic resource] /] / Sunil Manghani |
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Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-77624-6 |
9786611776244 |
1-84150-250-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Visual communication |
Image (Philosophy) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Illustrations; The Fall of the Berlin Wall (...an Imaginary); Before Words...; Chapter 1: On the Sight of the Berlin Wall; Chapter 2: The Problem of Visual Culture; Chapter 3: The End of History?; Chapter 4: Living without an Alternative; Chapter 5: Public Screening: Critical Pictures of the Wall; Afterword: Ecologies of Images, Topologies of Critique; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Taking the fall of the Berlin Wall as a key marker in recent history - a period in which increasingly we find ourselves watching 'instant history' unfold live on air - the book presents a new critical concept of image critique: a double procedure of both a critique of images and the use of images as a means to engage with our contemporary mediated culture for new critical purposes. A rich array of primary sources are woven together to provide a thorough critique of the recent and lively theoretical debates about visual culture. Topics range from Francis Fukuyama's End of History thesis to meta |
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