The Politics of Pictures is a history of looking, from Aristotle to TV audiences, from the invention of photography to the meaning of picnics, from Leviathan to synchronised swimming, Dr Johnson to the sexualization of war. John Hartley's wide-ranging and sometimes bizarre journey of discovery looks for the public in the realm of media, where citizens are now literally represented on screen and page. The book investigates popular media reality by showing how pictures and texts are powerful political forces in their own right, using a variety of primary texts to explore the way publics have been created, and exploring the political uses of media audiences. The unconventional approach is designed to show how popular reality looks to itself, and how its peculiar forms and connections actually challenge some venerable political and philosophical truths.
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The Politics of Pictures is a history of looking from Aristotle to the meaning of picnics. Hartley investigates popular media reality, showing how pictures and texts are powerful political forces in their own right.
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Acknowledgements, PUBLIC-ITY (Introduction), Part I Public pictures, Part II The pictures of politics, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780415015424
Publisert
1993-01-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
252
Forfatter