Description: A Visual Reader: Contents Introductions/Provocations Nicholas Mirzoeff , 'What is Visual Culture?' Irit Rogoff , 'Studying Visual Culture.' Ella Shohat and Robert Stam , 'Narrativizing Visual Culture: Towards a Polycentric Aesthetics.' 1. A Genealogy of Visual Culture: From Art to Culture Rene Descartes , 'Optics', from The Discourse on Method Martin Jay , 'The Scopic Regimes of Modernity.' Roland Barthes, 'The Rhetoric of the Image.' Griselda Pollock , 'Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity.' Carol Duncan , 'The Modern Art Museum.' James Clifford , 'On Collecting Art and Culture.' Paul Virilio , from The Vision Machine 2. Visual Culture and Everyday Life Marshall McLuhan , 'Woman in a Mirror.' Ann Reynolds , 'Visual Stories.' Michel de Certeau , from The Practice of Everyday Life. John Fiske , 'Videotech.' Marita Sturken , 'The Wall, the Screen and the Image: The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.' 3. Virtuality: Virtual Bodies, Virtual Spaces (a) The Virtual Body Donna Haraway , 'The Persistence of Vision.' Lisa Cartwright , 'Science and the Cinema.' Susan Bordo , 'Reading the Slender Body.' Ann Balsamo , 'On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body.' (b) Virtual Spaces Michel Foucault , 'Of Other Spaces.' Jonathan Crary , from Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Anne Friedberg , from Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern. Mary-Louise Pratt , from Imperial Eyes: Travel-Writing and Transculturation. Geoffrey Batchen , 'Spectres of Cyberspace.' 4. Race and Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Culture (a) Visual Colonialism Timothy Mitchell , 'Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order.' Anne McClintock , 'Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising.' Malek Alloula , from The Colonial Harem. Suzanne Preston Blier 'Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade.' (b) Visualizing Race and Identity Paul Gilroy , 'Art of Darkness: Black Art and the Problem of Belonging to England.' Bell Hooks , 'Representing Whiteness: Seeing Wings of Desire.' Andrew Ross , 'The Gangsta and the Diva.' (c) Identity and Transculture Adrian Piper , 'Passing for White, Passing for Black.' Coco Fusco , 'The Other History of Intercultural Performance.' Nestor Garcia Canclini , 'Remaking Passports: Visual Thought in the Debate on Multiculturalism.' Oriana Baddeley , 'Engendering New Worlds: Allegories of Rape and Reconciliation.' 5. Gender and Sexuality (a) The Gaze and Sexuality Anthea Callen , 'Ideal Masculinities: An Anatomy of Power.' Tamar Garb , 'The forbidden gaze: women artists and the male nude in late nineteenth-century France.' Judith Butler , from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. (b) Queering the Visual Thomas Waugh , 'The Third Body: Patterns in the Constructions of the Subject in the Gay Male Narrative Film.' Judith Butler , 'Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion.' Reina Lewis , 'Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and the Fashion Industry.' (c) Pornography Lynda Nead , from The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality Sandra Buckley , 'Penguin in Bondage': A Graphic Tale of Japanese Comic Books.' Richard Dyer , 'Idol Thoughts: orgasm and self-reflexivity in gay pornography.'

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