Visual Culture Books

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1. Fiction, Image, Tone: The Metropolis and the Realisation of Architecture

   By Raymond Quek

   Offering students a unique opportunity to understand architecture’s place in arts and indeed how architecture could strive to offer the ultimate synthesis of the arts, this book makes essential reading for any individual studying the theory, philosophy or history of architecture....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-49293-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. The Graphic Communication Handbook

   By Simon Downs

   The Graphic Communication Handbook is a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theories and practices of the graphics industry. It traces the history and development of graphic design, explores issues which affect the industry, examines its analysis through ...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-55738-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies: Brazil, Russia, India and China

   By Lynne Ciochetto

   This book analyses four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies. Brazil, Russia, India and China are the countries that will drive growth in the world economy in the next decades. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines anthropology, sociology, development studies...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-56200-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Critical Approaches to Comics: An Introduction to Theories and Methods

   Edited by Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88555-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Contemporary Visual Studies Reader

   Edited by JAMES ELKINS

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-87794-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. The Mobile Interface of Everyday Life: Technology, Embodiment, and Culture

   By Jason Farman

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-87891-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques and Entanglements

   By Richard K Sherwin

   Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice, teaching, and theory of law. What happens to law when it takes on the life of an image on the screen? This question is no idle speculation. Law today...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-61293-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History

   Edited by Adrian Heathfield, Amelia Jones

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-59470-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Global Image Wars: Geopolitics and Post-9/11 Visual Culture

   By Kari Anden-Papadopoulos

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57024-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Football’s Relationship with Art: Lines of Beauty?

    By John Hughson

    The ‘beautiful game’, a term commonly associated with Pele but traceable to his Brazilian national team predecessor Zidi, is now widely accepted as a descriptor of the world’s most popular sport. But to suggest that football is beautiful is to raise a number of questions pertinent to a range of...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-59196-6 | Hardback (Routledge)