1st Edition

The Politics of Pictures The Creation of the Public in the Age of the Popular Media

By John Hartley Copyright 1992
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The Politics of Pictures is a history of looking, from Aristotle to TV audiences, from the invention of photography to the meaning of picnics, from Leviathan to synchronised swimming, Dr Johnson to the sexualization of war. John Hartley's wide-ranging and sometimes bizarre journey of discovery looks for the public in the realm of media, where citizens are now literally represented on screen and... Read more
Acknowledgements, PUBLIC-ITY (Introduction), Part I Public pictures, Part II The pictures of politics, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Biography

John Hartley