Visions of Modernity : Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera Hardback
by Scott McQuire
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date:16/12/1997
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- ISBN:9780761953005
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date:16/12/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780761953005