About this title: Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions that produce them, such as cinema, photography, advertising, and television, and more as hybrid mental constructs composed of fragments derived from the heterogeneous sources that together constitute the 'media'. Through deft analyses of a photograph by Helmut Newton, Parisian cityscapes, the ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780520202993ISBN:0520202996
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. almost like new. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 329 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780520202993ISBN:0520202996
Description: New. "Victor Burgin has an extraordinary talent for writing about 'everyday life, ' melding together a category crucial to Freud, but also to Breton, the surrealists, Lefebvre, and the situationists. In/Different Spaces presents the postmodern world. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780520202993ISBN:0520202996
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