Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision

by Kevin Robins

Overview

Into the Image examines visual technology sociologically and, in so doing, rejects the fashionable idea that the new visual technologies are displacing the real.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415145770
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/12/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION: IMAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND VISUAL CULTURE, 1 THE TOUCH OF THE UNKNOWN, 2 THE SPACE OF THE SCREEN, 3 SIGHTS OF WAR, 4 CYBERSPACE AND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 5 CONSUMING IMAGES: FROM THE SYMBOLIC TO THE PSYCHOTIC, 6 THE CITY IN THE FIELD OF VISION, 7 WILL IMAGES MOVE US STILL?, Notes, Illustrations, Index