The Right to Look : A Counterhistory of Visuality /

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In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative de-colonial framework for visual culture studies, a field that he has helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and counter-visuality, or "the right to look," he explains how visualit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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Visual communication > Political aspects.
Mass media > Political aspects.
Communication and culture > Political aspects.
Mass media and world politics.
Visual communication > History.
Kulturleben.
Internationale Politik.
Kommunikation.
Massenmedien.
Visuelle Kommunikation.
Politik
Bild
Diskursanalyse
Visuelle Kommunikation
Bildpublizistik
Massenmedien
Weltpolitik
Communication visuelle > Aspect politique.
Communication et culture > Aspect politique.
Medias et politique mondiale.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Oversight : the ordering of slavery
  • The modern imaginary : anti-slavery revolutions and the right to existence
  • Visuality : authority and war
  • Abolition realism : reality, realisms, and revolution
  • Imperial visuality and countervisuality, ancient and modern
  • Anti-fascist neorealisms : North-South and the permanent battle for Algiers
  • Global counterinsurgency and the crisis of visuality.

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