W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory (eBook, PDF)

Living Pictures
Redaktion: Purgar, Kresimir

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies - pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others - while systematically presenting the work of W.J.T.Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317288916
• Artikelnr.: 47381994

Autorenporträt

Kreimir Purgar is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Among his recent titles is the co-edited volume Theorizing Images (2016), as well as the articles "Coming to Terms with Images: Visual Studies and Beyond" (2016) and "What is not an Image (Anymore)? Iconic Difference, Immersion, and Iconic Simultaneity in the Age of Screens" (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction



Kresimir Purgar



Part 1: Towards a Critical Iconology

1. The Changing Patterns of Iconology: Seven Questions to Mitchell from the 20th Century

Timothy Erwin

2. What is an Image? W.J.T. Mitchell's Picturing Theory



Francesco Gori



3. Post-Structuralist Iconology: Genealogical and Historical Concerns of Mitchell's Image Science



György E. Szönyi



4. Iconology as Cultural Symptomatology: Dinosaurs, Clones and the Golden Calf in Mitchell's Image Theory



Kresimir Purgar



5. Words and Pictures in the Age of the Image: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell



Andrew McNamara



Part II: (Post)Disciplinary Context

6. From Image/Text to Biopictures: Key Concepts in W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory



Michele Cometa



7. The Birth of the Discipline: W.J.T. Mitchell and the Chicago School of Visual Studies



Ian Verstegen



8. What Discipline? On Mitchell's "Interdisciplinarity" and German Medienwissenschaft



Jens Schröter



9. Mitchell and Boehm - A Dialogue: Image Science in the European Context



Luca Vargiu



10. Images and their Incarnations: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell



Asbjørn Grønstad, Øyvind Vågnes



Part III: Interpretive Readings

11. What Do Photographs Want? Mitchell's Theory of Photography from the Camera Obscura to the Networked Lens



Thomas Stubblefield



12. The Eyes Have Ears: Sound in W.J.T. Mitchell's Pictures from Paragone to Occupy Wall Street



Hannah Higgins



13. Living Pictures of Democracy: W.J.T. Mitchell's Iconology as Political Philosophy



Maxime Boidy



14. Showing Showing: Reading Mitchell's "Queer" Metapictures



John Paul Ricco



15. After the Pictorial Turn: An Interview with W.J.T.