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Record Nr.

UNISA996199858603316

Autore

Robins Kevin

Titolo

Into the image : culture and politics in the field of vision / / Kevin Robins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-75897-9

1-134-75898-7

0-203-28094-6

1-280-10900-9

0-203-44022-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

306.46

Soggetti

Visual sociology

Visual communication

Cybernetics

Image processing - Digital techniques

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: IMAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND VISUAL CULTURE; THE TOUCH OF THE UNKNOWN; THE SPACE OF THE SCREEN; SIGHTS OF WAR; CYBERSPACE AND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN; CONSUMING IMAGES: FROM THE SYMBOLIC TO THE PSYCHOTIC; THE CITY IN THE FIELD OF VISION; WILL IMAGES MOVE US STILL?; Notes; Illustrations; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Into the Image examines visual technology sociologically and, in so doing, rejects the fashionable idea that the new visual technologies are displacing the real.