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a visual culture: d Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/visualculturerea0000unse_f6x1 Visual culture: Visual Culture: The Reader This Reader provides some of the set readings for a 16-week module (D850 The Image and Visual Culture) which is offered by The Open University Masters in Social Sciences Programme. The Open University Masters in Social Sciences The MA Programme enables students to select from a range of modules to create a programme to suit their own professional or personal development. Students can choose from a range of social science modules to obtain an MA in Social Sciences, or may specialize in a particular subject area. D850 The Image and Visual Culture is one of the modules leading to an MA in Cultural and Media Studies. At present there are three study lines leading to: an MA in Cultural and Media Studies an MA in Environmental Policy and Society an MA in Psychological Research Methods. Other study lines being planned include an MSc in Psychology and an MA in Social Policy/MA in Social Policy and Criminology. OU Supported Learning The Open University’s unique, supported open (‘distance’) learning Masters Programme in Social Sciences is designed to introduce the concepts, approaches, theories and techniques associated with a number of academic areas of study. The MA in Social Sciences programme provides great flexibility. Students study in their own environments, in their own time, anywhere in the European Union. They receive specially prepared course materials, benefit from structured tutorial support throughout all the coursework and assessment assignments, and have the chance to work with other students. How to apply If you would like to register for this programme, or simply find out more information, please write for the Masters in Social Sciences prospectus to the Course Reservations Centre, PO Box 724, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6ZW, UK (Telephone +44 (0) 1908 653232), Visual culture: the reader edited by — Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall REMOVED FROM THE _ ALVERNO COLLEGE LIBRARY SAGE Publications London ¢ Thousand Oaks ¢ New Delhi : mnie : TheOpen in association with University Alvemo College Library Milwaules,W i Editorial material © Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall 1999 First published 1999 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash — | New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7619 6247 6 ISBN 0 7619 6248 4 (pbk) Library of Congress catalog record available Text and cover design: Barker/Hilsdon Typeset by Mayhew Typesetting, Rhayader, Powys Printed in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire Contents Notes on contributors Acknowledgements What is visual culture? Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall Part | Cultures of the visual Introduction Jessica Evans Rhetorics of the image Norman Bryson The natural attitude Roland Barthes Rhetoric of the image Victor Burgin 41 Art, common sense and photography Roland Barthes 51 Myth today Techniques of the visible 7 Michel Foucault 61 Panopticism Walter Benjamin Ta The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction Susan Sontag 80 The image-world Guy Debord IS Separation perfected Dick Hebdige 92 The bottom line on planet one: squaring up to The Face Part Ii Regulating photographic meanings Introduction Jessica Evans Theorizing photography 10 Simon Watney On the institutions of photography Pierre Bourdieu The social definition of photography 12 Allan Sekula 181 Reading an archive: photography between labour and capital 13 Rosalind Krauss 193 Photography’s discursive spaces Institutions and practices in photography 211 14 Douglas Crimp 2s The museum’s old, the library’s new subject 15 Abigail Solomon-Godeau 224 Living with contradictions: critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics CONTENTS 16 John Tagg 244 Evidence, truth and order: a means of surveillance 17 Jessica Evans 274 Feeble monsters: making up disabled people 18 Don Slater 289 Marketing mass photography Part Ill Looking and subjectivity 307 Introduction Stuart Hall 309 Theoretical perspectives 6) 19 Louis Althusser oz, Ideology and ideological, state apparatuses (notes towards an investigation) Sigmund Freud 324 Fetishism Otto Fenichel 327 The scoptophilic instinct and identification Kaja Silverman 340 The subject Elizabeth Cowie 356 Fantasia Homi K. Bhabha 370 The other question: the stereotype and colonial discourse Gendering the gaze a 25 Laura Mulvey 381 Visual pleasure and narrative cinema 26 Jackie Stacey 390 Desperately seeking difference CONTENTS 27 Jane Gaines 402 White privilege and looking relations: race and gender in feminist film theory 28 Jacqueline Rose 411 Sexuality in the field of vision ‘Seeing’ racial difference Frantz Fanon The fact of blackness Mary Louise Pratt Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America Kobena Mercer Reading racial fetishism: the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe 448 32 Mary Ann Doane Dark continents: epistemologies of racial and sexual difference in psychoanalysis and the cinema 33 Richard Dyer 457 White Index 469 viii CONTENTS
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