The Right to Look
| Author | : Nicholas Mirzoeff |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2011-11-18 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0822349183 |
Develops a comparative de-colonial framework for visual culture studies.
The Right To Look
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Visual Culture
| Author | : Richard Howells |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 451 |
| Release | : 2019-03-05 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1509518819 |
This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our increasingly visual world. But, rather than simply providing set meanings to individual images, Visual Culture teaches readers how to interpret visual texts with their own eyes. While the first part of the book takes readers through differing theoretical approaches to visual analysis, the second part shifts to a medium-based analysis, connected by an underlying theme about the complex relationship between visual culture and reality. Howells and Negreiros draw together seemingly diverse methodologies, while ultimately arguing for a polysemic approach to visual analysis. The third edition of this popular book contains over fifty illustrations, for the first time in colour. Included in the revised text is a new section on images of power, fear and seduction, a new segment on video games, as well as fresh material on taste and judgement. This timely edition also offers a glossary and suggestions for further reading. Written in a clear, lively and engaging style, Visual Culture continues to be an ideal introduction for students taking courses in visual culture and communications in a range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, sociology, and art and design.
Why Cities Look the Way They Do
| Author | : Richard J. Williams |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2019-08-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0745691846 |
We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the look of cities had less to do with design, and more to do with social, cultural, financial and political processes, and the way ordinary citizens interact with them? What if the city is a process as much as a design? Richard J. Williams takes the moment construction is finished as a beginning, tracing the myriad processes that produce the look of the contemporary global city. This book is the story of dramatic but unforeseen urban sights: how financial capital spawns empty towering skyscrapers and hollowed-out ghettoes; how the zoning of once-illicit sexual practices in marginal areas of the city results in the reinvention of culturally vibrant gay villages; how abandoned factories have been repurposed as creative hubs in a precarious postindustrial economy. It is also the story of how popular urban clichés and the fictional portrayal of cities powerfully shape the way we read and see the bricks, concrete and glass that surround us. Thought-provoking and original, Why Cities Look the Way They Do will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the contemporary city, shedding new light on humanity’s greatest collective invention.
A Look at the Nineteenth Amendment
| Author | : Helen Koutras Bozonelis |
| Publisher | : Enslow Publishers, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2008-08-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781598450675 |
Discusses the history of the women's suffrage amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Look Left, Look Right, Look Left Again
| Author | : Ginger Pate |
| Publisher | : Greene Bark Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-02-13 |
| Genre | : Ducks |
| ISBN | : 9781880851302 |
A young duck, Wally Waddlewater, goes to the post office to mail a birthday card to his grandmother. On his way, he follows important rules of safety before crossing the street.
Perennial Combinations
| Author | : C. Colston Burrell |
| Publisher | : Rodale |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 1999-01-15 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 9780875968063 |
Offers planting plans and plant descriptions to maximize the effects of color in a perennial garden
Data Visualization
| Author | : Kieran Healy |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2018-12-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0691181624 |
An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from data This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest and effective way. Data Visualization builds the reader’s expertise in ggplot2, a versatile visualization library for the R programming language. Through a series of worked examples, this accessible primer then demonstrates how to create plots piece by piece, beginning with summaries of single variables and moving on to more complex graphics. Topics include plotting continuous and categorical variables; layering information on graphics; producing effective “small multiple” plots; grouping, summarizing, and transforming data for plotting; creating maps; working with the output of statistical models; and refining plots to make them more comprehensible. Effective graphics are essential to communicating ideas and a great way to better understand data. This book provides the practical skills students and practitioners need to visualize quantitative data and get the most out of their research findings. Provides hands-on instruction using R and ggplot2 Shows how the “tidyverse” of data analysis tools makes working with R easier and more consistent Includes a library of data sets, code, and functions
Not My Idea
| Author | : Anastasia Higginbotham |
| Publisher | : Ordinary Terrible Things |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2018-09 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781948340007 |
People of color are eager for white people to deal with their racial ignorance. White people are desperate for an affirmative role in racial justice. Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness helps with conversations the nation is, just now, finally starting to have.
Trade of the Tricks
| Author | : Graham Jones |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2011-09-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0520270479 |
This book looks inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing Paris magic scene as an apprentice, the author gives a firsthand account of how magicians learn to perform their deceptions. He follows the day-to-day lives of some of France's most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also how they are stolen and destroyed.
What is Media Archaeology?
| Author | : Jussi Parikka |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2013-04-23 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0745661394 |
This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media culture. The author contextualizes media archaeology in relation to other key media studies debates including software studies, German media theory, imaginary media research, new materialism and digital humanities. What is Media Archaeology? advances an innovative theoretical position while also presenting an engaging and accessible overview for students of media, film and cultural studies. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the interdisciplinary ties between art, technology and media.
