1st Edition
Visual Studies A Social Scientific Perspective
0. Preface
1. Introduction
2. Looking, seeing, and historical notions of the eye
o 2.1. The look as a medium
o 2.2. A history of vision
3. Tools for analysing images
o 3.1. What exactly an image is
o 3.2. The tension between the icon and the index
o 3.3. The role of social interaction
o 3.4. Immersive viewing, from Byzantine icons to virtual reality
4. Applications of visual studies
o 4.1. The significance of faces
o 4.2. Cameras, environments, and ‘good’ images
o 4.3. The visual culture of death
o 4.4. X-rays between science and popular culture
o 4.5. Shadows: Between light and darkness
5. Conclusions
6. References
Index
Biography
Paolo S.H. Favero is Professor of Visual Cultures and Anthropology at the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi), University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Asko Lehmuskallio is Professor of Visual Studies and Director of the Visual Studies Lab at Tampere University, Finland.
