Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture

Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher and understand the many ways that our everyday lives are organized around looking practices and the many images we encounter each day? Now in a new edition, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a comprehensive and engaging overview of how we understand a wide array of visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to play, and to learn. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright--two leading scholars in the emergent and dynamic field of visual culture and communication--examine the diverse range of approaches to visual analysis and lead students through key theories and concepts.
Using clear, accessible language, vivid examples, and more than 250 full-color illustrations, the authors both explain and apply theory as they discuss how we see paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, the news, the Internet, digital media, and visualization techniques in medicine and science. This truly interdisciplinary text bridges art history, film, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images carry meaning within and between different cultural arenas in everyday life, from art and commerce to science and the law. Sturken and Cartwright analyze images in relation to a wide spectrum of cultural and representational issues (desire, power, the gaze, bodies, sexuality, and ethnicity) and methodologies (semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonial theory).
Thoroughly updated to incorporate cutting-edge theoretical research, the second edition examines the following new topics: the surge of new media technologies; the impact of globalization on the flow of information and media form and content; and how nationalism and security concerns have changed our looking practices in the aftermath of 9/11. Challenging yet accessible, Practices of Looking is ideal for courses across a range of disciplines, including media and film studies, communications, art history, and photography.
Beautifully designed and now in a larger format and in full color throughout, Practices of Looking is an invaluable guide to understanding the complexities, contradictions, and pleasures of the visual world. more

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-20-2008; Seeing is Believing; It's good to have eyes that work reasonably well, and a "user's manual" such as this to learn how to use them.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-11-2008; Remarkably Well-Written..., Exemplary Textbook..., Wide-Ranging..., Comprehensive And Compelling...; "Marita Sturken is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.""Lisa Cartwright is Associate Professor of English and of Visual and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Susan...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-01-2008; Make the pain stop!!!; This was a painfully written book for an actually quite interesting topic. Bought this book for a class and enjoyed the class, just not the reading assignments as the book went on and on seemingly talking about nothing. When it would...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2007; one of the best books about visual culture; The authors of this book very clearly articulate the considerable factors of the visual culture in mass media and visual art. Not only the pictures cited in the texts are also quite helpful to better understand the details of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-20-2008; Seeing is Believing; It's good to have eyes that work reasonably well, and a "user's manual" such as this to learn how to use them.; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-25-2003; Chapter 6 Review; After looking very carefully at Chapter six of Sturken and Cartwright's The Practice of Looking, I found the text to be an insightful and enjoyable read. The incorporation of images and text allows me as the reader, to gain a better...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-01-2008; Make the pain stop!!!; This was a painfully written book for an actually quite interesting topic. Bought this book for a class and enjoyed the class, just not the reading assignments as the book went on and on seemingly talking about nothing. When it would...; read full review | report as inappropriate