Visual Culture Theory Bibliography and Sources: In Progress in Realtime

Douglas Kellner, Brief Definition and History of Cultural Studies

Illuminations: Critical Theory Site

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

______. Image Music Text. London: Fontana, 1977.

______. A Barthes Reader. Ed. Susan Sontag. New York: Hill and Wang, 1980.

Bérubé, Michael. The Aesthetics of Cultuiral Studies. Blackwell: Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, 2005.

Bourdieu, Pierre 1979. La distinction: Critique sociale du jugement. Les éditions de Minuit, Paris. English translation: Distinction : A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1984.]

Ferry L 1990 Homo Aestheticus: The Invention of Taste in the Democratic Age. Chicago University Press, Chicago.

Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Pantheon,and London: Tavistock, 1970.

-----. The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. A. M. Sheridan Smith, translator. New York: Pantheon, 1972.

-----. "What is an Author?" Translated by Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. In Michel Foucault: Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. Donald F. Bouchard, Ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977. pp. 113-138.

-----. This is Not a Pipe. Translated and edited by James Harkness. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

-----. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Pantheon, 1978.

-----. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon, 1978.

-----. The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Random House, 1985.

Gans, Herbert J 1974. Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste. Basic Books, New York.

Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Methuen, 1979.

Horkheimer, Max 1986 "Art and Mass Culture." Critical Theory: Selected Essays. Continuum, New York.

Veblen T 1939 [1899] The Theory of the Leisure Class. The Modern Library, New York.

M. Bal, "Seeing Signs: The Use of Semiotics for the Understanding of Visual Art", in The Objects of Art History; Historical Objects in Contemporary Perspective, ed.M.Cheetham, M.A.Holly, and K.Moxey, 1998, 74-93.

M. Bal and N. Bryson, "Semiotics and Art History", Art Bulletin, 73, 1991, pp.174-208.

N. Bryson, M.A.Holly, K.Moxey (eds.) Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation, Cambridge, 1991 (especially essays by Bryson and Summers)

W.J.T.Mitchell, Iconology; Text, Image, Ideology, Chicago, 1986

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Evans, Jessica and Stuart Hall, eds. Visual Culture: The Reader. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001.

Stafford, Barbara Maria. Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1996.

Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Tufte, Edward R. The visual display of quantitative information. Edward R. Tufte Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, 1983.

-----. Visual explanations : images and quantities, evidence and narrative. Edward R. Tufte Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, 1997.

-----. Envisioning information / Edward R. Tufte Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, 1990.

Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. London: Vintage, 1993 [1980].

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.

Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. New York: McGraw Hill, 1993.

Elsässer, Thomas and Warren Buckland. Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis. London: Arnold, 2002.

Evans, Jessica and Stuart Hall (eds.). Visual Culture: The Reader. London, Thousand Oaks, New Dehli: Sage in association with the Open University, 1999.

Gledhill, Christine and Linda Williams (eds.). Reinventing Films Studies. London: Arnold, 2000.

Hayword, Susan. Key Concepts in Cinema Studies. Routledge: London, New York, 1996.

Mast, Gerald, Cohen Marshall and Leo Braudy (eds.). Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. Fourth edition. New York, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas (ed.). The Visual Culture Reader. London, New York: Routledge, 1998.

______. An Introduction to Visual Culture. London, New York: Routledge, 1999.

Mulhall, Stephen. On Film. London, New York: Routledge, 2002.

Nichols, Bill (ed.). Movies and Methods. Volume II. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1985.

Visual Rhetoric Sources

Arnheim, Rudolf. Genesis of a Painting: Picasso's Guernica. 1994

Arnheim, Rudolf. New Essays on the Psychology of Art 1986.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Revealing Vision. Kent Kleinman (Editor), Leslie Van Duzer (Editor) 1997)

Arnheim, Rudolf. The Power of the Center : A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts: The New Version 1988.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking 1989.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception : A Psychology of the Creative Eye. 1983

Arnheim, Rudolf. Entropy and Art : An Essay on Disorder and Order 1983.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Film As Art 1989

Bang, Molly. Picture This: How Pictures Work. New York: SeaStar Books, 2000.

Berger, Arthur Asa. Seeing is Believing: An Introduction to Visual Communication. 2nd Ed. Mayfield, 1998.Berger, John, and Jean Mohr. Another Way of Telling. Vintage, 1995.

Bernstein, J.M. "Aporia of the Sensible: Art, Objecthood and Anthropomorphism." Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Vision. Ed. Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell. New York: Routledge, 1998. 218-237.

Betts, Katherine.  "Copy Rites."  Vogue (September 1994):  148, 154.

Bordo, Susan. Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. Berkeley: U California P, 1998.

Davey, Nicholas. "The Hermeneutics of Seeing." Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Vision. Ed. Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell. New York: Routledge, 1998. 3-29.

Dondis, Donis A. A Primer of Visual Literacy. Cambridge: MIT, 1973.

Gombrich, E.H. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. Princeton UP, 1969.

Heywood, Ian, and Barry Sandywell, eds. Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Vision. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Heywood, Ian, and Barry Sandywell, eds. "Explorations in the Hermeneutics of Vision." Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Vision. Ed. Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell. New York: Routledge, 1998. ix-xviii.

Hill, Charles A., and Marguerite Helmers, eds.  Defining Visual Rhetorics.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003. 

Hilligoss, Susan. Visual Communication: A Writer's Guide. New York: Longman, 2000.

Hocks, Mary E., and Michelle R. Kendrick, eds.  Eloquent Images:  Word and Image in the Age of New Media.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT P, 2003. 

Jones, Caroline A. "The Modernist Paradigm: The Artworld and Thomas Kuhn." Critical Inquiry 26.3 (Spring 2000): 488-528.

Journal of Visual Literacy and the International Visual Literacy Association (www.emporia.edu/S/www/slim/resource/IVLA/IVLA.htm )

Kress, Gunther, and Theo Van Leeuwen. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge, 1996.

Marling, Karal Ann. As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1994. 

Messaris, Paul. Visual Persuasion: The Role of Images in Advertising. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997.

Michel, Anthony J. "Visual Rhetorics and Classroom Practices: Negotiating 'Contact Zones' in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust." Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2001. 167-184.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. The Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming.

Mitchell, W.J.T. Iconology:  Image, Text, Ideology.  U Chicago P, 1986. 

Mitchell, W.J.T. "The Panic of the Visual: A Conversation with Edward W. Said." Boundary 2 25.2 (Summer 1998).

Mitchell, W.J.T. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. U Chicago P, 1994.

Mitchell, W.J.T.  The Reconfigured Eye:  Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT P, 1994. 

Monmonier, Mark. How to Lie with Maps. 2^nd ed. U Chicago P, 1996.

Morris, Robert. "Size Matters." Critical Inquiry 26.3 (Spring 2000): 474-487.

Nelson, Robert S. "The Slide Lecture, or The Work of Art History in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Critical Inquiry 26.3 (Spring 2000): 414-434.

Parker, Ian. "Absolute Powerpoint." The New Yorker (28 May 2001): 76-87.

Schor, Naomi. "Blindness as Metaphor." Differences 11.2 (Summer 1999).  

Scott, Linda M., and Rajeev Batra, eds.  Persuasive Imagery:  A Consumer Response Perspective.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003. 

Smith, John A. "The Denigration of Vision and the Renewal of Painting." Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Vision. Ed. Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell. New York: Routledge, 1998. 162-182.

Sturken, Marita, and Lisa Cartwright.  Practices of Looking:  An Introduction to Visual Culture.  New York:  Oxford UP, 2001. 

Taylor, Mark C. & Esa Saarinen. Imagologies : Media Philosophy. London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 1994.

Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information. Cheshire: Graphics, 1990.

Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantitites, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics P, 1997.

Bal, Mieke. 1991. Reading "Rembrandt." Beyond the Word-Image Opposition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Baudrillard, Jean. 1988. Selected Writings. Edited by Mark Poster. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

------. 1993. "The Evil Demon of Images." Interview by Ted Colless, David Kelly and Alan Cholodenko. In Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews. Edited by Mike Gane. London and New York: Routledge.

Belting, Hans. 2001. Bild-Anthropologie. Munich: Fink.

Debray, Régis. 1996. Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms. Translated by Eric Rauth. London and New York: Verso.

Deleuze, Gilles. 1988. Foucault. Translated and edited by Seán Hand. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Elkins, James. 1999. The Domain of Images. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.

Foucault, Michel. 1983. This is Not a Pipe. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lacan, Jacques. [1981] 1998. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-analysis. Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company.

Mitchell, W.J.T. 1986. Iconology. Image, Text, Ideology. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

------. 1996. "Word and Image." In Critical Terms for Art History. Edited by Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

Peirce, Charles Sanders. 1955. Philosophical Writings of Peirce. Edited by Justus Buchler. New York: Dover.

Plato. 1937. "Phaedrus." In The Dialogues of Plato. Vol. 1. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. 3rd ed. New York: Random House.

Saussure, Ferdinand de. 1966. Course in General Linguistics. Translated by Wade Baskin. New York: Double Day.

Snyder, Joel. 1993. "What Happens By Itself in Photography?" In Pursuits of Reason: Essays in Honor of Stanley Cavell. Edited by Ted Cohen, Paul Guyer, and Hilary Putnam. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press.

Williams, Raymond. 1977. Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.