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

McQuire, Scott

 
9780761953012: Visions of Modernity: Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0761953019 ISBN 13 : 9780761953012
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

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 t

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À propos de l'auteur

Scott McQuire completed his PhD in the Politics Department at the University of Melbourne in 1995. He has a strong interest in interdisciplinary research and has lectured in disciplines including politics, sociology, cinema studies, art and architecture, and media and communication. Scott has held a number of research fellowships including a visiting fellowship at the Department of Film, Theatre and Television, UCLA (1998), an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2000), and a visiting fellowship at the Celeste Bartos International Film Study Center, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2000). He returned to the University of Melbourne to help establish the Media and Communication Programme in 2001. He is an active researcher who has been a Chief Investigator on six Australian Research Council funded projects. He has also received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, and has undertaken research consultancies for the Communications Law Centre, the Australian Film Commission and the Australian Key Centre for Media and Cultural Policy.

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Éditeur
SAGE Publications Ltd
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0761953019
ISBN 13 
9780761953012
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  0761953000 ISBN 13 :  9780761953005
Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1997
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