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Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Couverture souple

Manghani, Sunil

 
9781841501901: Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1841501905 ISBN 13 : 9781841501901
Editeur : Intellect Books, 2008

Synopsis

Although we are now accustomed to watching history unfold live on the air, the fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the first instances when history was produced on television. Inspired by the Wall and its powerful resonances, Sunil Manghani's breakthrough study presents the new critical concept of "image critique," a method of critiquing images while simultaneously using them as a means to engage with contemporary culture. Manghani examines current debates surrounding visual culture, ranging from such topics as Francis Fukuyama's end of history thesis to metapictures and East German film. The resulting volume is an exhilarating interweaving of history, politics, and visual culture.

"Sunil Manghani's Image Critique & the Fall of the Berlin Wall is the best sort of scholarly book--an intellectually grounded and theoretically adventurous critical performance. Through his concept of image critique, Manghani makes a virtue out of the many attributes of images that bedevil visual cultural studies, rightly insisting that rather than domesticating images for the tyranny of the word, scholars must do visual studies from the ground of images, in the process reconceptualizing theory and criticism. Manghani adeptly anchors his insights in close engagements with images, most notably images from the event of the fall of the Berlin Wall. If heeded, Manghani's book will change the trajectory of visual cultural studies by making critique a performance with force in the world."--Kevin DeLuca, University of Georgia

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À propos de l'auteur

Sunil Manghani is lecturer in film and television at York St John University College, United Kingdom. He is coeditor of The Image Reader.

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Éditeur
Intellect Books
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1841501905
ISBN 13 
9781841501901
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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