Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction.

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
1. What Is Visual Studies?
	Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, Visual Studies
	The Spread
of Visual Culture Programs
	Publications
in Visual Culture
	Attempts
to Define Visual Culture
	Visual Culture
and Art History
	Is Visual Culture Interdisciplinary?
2. The Subjects of Visual Studies
	The Bibliography
of Visual Culture
	The Canon of Visual Culture
	The Possibility of a General, Methodological Approach
to Images
	A Note on the Collapse
of Media
	The Place of Contemporary Art in Studies
of Visual Culture
	The High/Low
Debate
	Resisting the Level Playing Field of
Visual Culture
3. Ten Ways to Make Visual Studies More Difficult
	1. The Case of the Calvin Klein Suit: In What Sense
Is Visual Culture Marxist?
	2. The Case of the Poor Schoolteacher: When Visual Studies Is Self-Evident
	3. The Case of the Ill-Conceived Essay on
9/11: When Visual Studies Is Not Helpful
	4. The Case of the Neglected Crystal:
Visual Culture and Non-Art Images
	5. The Case of the Ghost of C. P. Snow:
Taking Science Seriously
	6. The Case of the Benjamin Footnote: Issues involved in Citing Benjamin,
Foucault, and Warburg
	7. The Case of the Unclaimed Inheritance:
Seeking Deeper History of the Discipline
	8. The Case of the Mexican Soap Opera: Visual and Nonvisual in Film and Media
Studies
	9. The Case of the New Guinea Bird-watcher:
Can Visual Studies Be Truly Multicultural?
	10. The Case of the Writing Itself: The
Challenge of Writing Ambitiously
4. What Is Visual Literacy?
	Ways of Asking about Visual Literacy
	Is Our Culture the Most Visually
Literate Ever?
	What Is Meant by Literacy
	1. Art History as a Kind of Visual Literacy
	2. Non-Western Visual Competencies
	3. Unrecoverable Visual Literacies
	4. Visual Literacies that Involve
Making Images
	5. Visual Literacies in the Sciences
	6. Special Effects and Digital Images
	7. Graphics and Design
	8. A Wider Range of Architectural Spaces
	Remarks on the Specificity of Visual Images
Envoi
Notes
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Index