Image critique & the fall of the Berlin Wall [[electronic resource] /] / Sunil Manghani

• Autore: Manghani Sunil
• Pubblicazione: Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23; 943/.1552087
• Soggetto topico: Visual communication; Image (Philosophy)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Image critique & the fall of the Berlin Wall
• ISBN: 1-281-77624-6; 9786611776244; 1-84150-250-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453331903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II