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21 produkter
Image Science
Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics
Häftad, 2018
334 kr
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Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, …
Landscape and Power
Häftad, 2002
416 kr
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The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This second …
Occupy
Three Inquiries in Disobedience
Av W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard Harcourt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1062 kr
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Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T. Mitchel, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant …
Occupy – Three Inquiries in Disobedience
Av W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard Harcourt m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
162 kr
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Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant …
Edward Said
Continuing the Conversation
Av Homi K. Bhabha, W. J. T. Mitchell
Häftad, 2005
255 kr
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In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they left off following his death in the fall of 2003. The essays, imagining and recalling the cadences of Said's conversation, take various forms, including …
Language of Images
Häftad, 1980
194 kr
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"A remarkably rich and provocative set of essays on the virtually infinite kinds of meanings generated by images in both the verbal and visual arts. Ranging from Michelangelo to Velazquez and Delacroix, from the art of the emblem book to the history of photography and film, The Language of Images …
On Narrative
Häftad, 1981
223 kr
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The fourteen distinguished contributors to this volume explore ways we tell, understand, and use stories. More important, through their exploration they collectively demonstrate that the study of narrative, like the study of other significant human creations, has taken a quantum leap in the modern …
Against Theory
Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism
Häftad, 1985
204 kr
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"Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge—issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in Critical Inquiry (8:4)—strikes some critics as scandalous, others as provocative and …
Iconology
Image, Text, Ideology
Häftad, 1987
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
290 kr
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"[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement
Picture Theory
Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
Häftad, 1995
379 kr
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In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author extends his investigation to pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Although we have many words about pictures, Mitchell notes that we do not yet have a satisfactory theory of them. What we have is a variety of …
What Do Pictures Want?
The Lives and Loves of Images
Häftad, 2006
326 kr
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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. …
Critical Terms for Media Studies
Av W. J. T. Mitchell, Mark B. N. Hansen
Häftad, 2010
342 kr
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Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. "Critical Terms for Media Studies" defines, and at times redefines, what this new and hybrid …
Cloning Terror
The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present
E-bok, 2011
654 kr
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The phrase “War on Terror” has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, and that spawned it. Exploring the role of verbal …
Seeing Through Madness
Essays in Crazy Times
Inbunden, 2026
1144 kr
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An insightful reconsideration of our historical moment seen through the lens of madness.In Seeing Through Madness, W. J. T. Mitchell pursues the idea of “putting madness to work” by transforming it from an individual affliction—an illness to be treated—into a critical framework for understanding …
Seeing Through Madness
Essays in Crazy Times
Häftad, 2026
304 kr
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An insightful reconsideration of our historical moment seen through the lens of madness.In Seeing Through Madness, W. J. T. Mitchell pursues the idea of “putting madness to work” by transforming it from an individual affliction—an illness to be treated—into a critical framework for understanding …
Mental Traveler
A Father, a Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia
Inbunden, 2020
245 kr
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How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T. Mitchell's memoir tells the story--at once representative …
Seeing Through Race
Inbunden, 2012
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418 kr
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According to W. J. T. Mitchell, a “color-blind” post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our understanding of social reality. Race is …
Critical Terms for Media Studies
Av W. J. T. Mitchell, Mark B. N. Hansen
Inbunden, 2010
875 kr
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Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. "Critical Terms for Media Studies" defines, and at times redefines, what this new and hybrid …
Late Derrida
Av W. J. T. Mitchell, Arnold I. Davidson
Häftad, 2007
256 kr
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The title "The Late Derrida", with all puns and ambiguities cheerfully intended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vast outpouring of new writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. In this period, Derrida published more than he had produced during his entire …
Cloning Terror
The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present
Häftad, 2011
273 kr
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The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T. Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, and that spawned it. Exploring the role of verbal …
