Visual Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Fifty Key Writers on Photography

   Edited by Mark Durden

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Fifty Key Writers on Photography is a clear and concise survey of some of the most significant writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and influencing our understanding of the medium. It provides a succinct overview of writing on photography from a diverse range of...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Theorizing Visual Studies

   Writing Through the Discipline

   Edited by James Elkins, Kristi McGuire, Maureen Burns, Alicia Chester, Joel Kuennen

   This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. An Introduction to Design and Culture

   1900 to the Present, 3rd Edition

   By Penny Sparke

   This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design. New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
4. Image Studies

   Theory and Practice

   By Sunil Manghani

   Image Studies offers an engaging introduction to visual and image studies. In order to better understand images and visual culture the book seeks to bridge between theory and practice; asking the reader to think critically about images and image practices, but also simultaneously to make images and...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Color and the Moving Image

   History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive

   Edited by Simon Brown, Sarah Street, Liz Watkins

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of color on the...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. New Games

   Postmodernism After Contemporary Art

   By Pamela M. Lee

   Series: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

   Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at work by Dara...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Language in Public Spaces in Japan

   Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

   This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Scene of the Mass Crime

   History, Film, and International Tribunals

   Edited by Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich

   Series: Discourses of Law

   The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film. From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia, film, in particular, has been...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. Transforming Images

   Screens, affect, futures

   By Rebecca Coleman

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. China on Video

    Smaller-Screen Realities

    By Paola Voci

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

    China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media,...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge