Visions of Modernity: Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera - Hardcover

McQuire, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761953000 ISBN 13: 9780761953005

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

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Book by McQuire Scott

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Críticas:

`McQuire has produced a comprehensive and lucidly written account of the camera-driven transformations across the period we may now retrospectively call "modernity"' - Victor Burgin, Unviersity of California, Santa Cruz

`Visions of Modernity offers an admirable overview of modern visual culture. But, more than this, it takes us through a wide range of debates in cultural theory. McQuire has produced an encompassing, and very impressive work of intellectual synthesis' - Kevin Robins, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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This overview of modern visual culture explores the relationship between technology, society and identity which underpins contemporary `media culture'. While tracing historical shifts as they have developed through, or intersected with, different camera technologies, the book is not so much about the camera's field of vision: it is concerned with processes of modernization and the dramatic changes - perceptual, experiential, epistemological - which characterize modernity.

Using the camera and its technologies as symbols of `realism', Scott McQuire interweaves: the history of visual culture from Lumiere to virtual reality by way of photography, cinema and television; the broad social and political transformations of the last 150 years; the ambivalent relationship between `image' and `reality'; and the changing relationships of time and space, particularly related to colonialism, globalization, the modern city and cyberspace available in every home.

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• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0761953000
• ISBN 13: 9780761953005
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288