Overview
Makes available the essential information and critical assessment of major topics in Image Studies all in one place for the first time
Presents key concerns, histories, and methodologies central to contemporary Image Studies in a clear order and through distinguishable thematic units
Serves as an essential reference for every student in visual communication, media theory, visual culture, visual semiotics, art theory, film studies, and philosophy of the image
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Table of contents (57 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Essential Histories
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the first part, the book gives readers an historical overview and basic diacronical explanation of the term image, including the ways it has been used in different periods throughout history. In the second part, the fundamental concepts that have to be mastered should one wish to enter into the emerging field of Image Studies are explained. In the third part, readers will find analysis of the most common subjects and topics pertaining to images. In the fourth part, the book explains how existing disciplines relate to Image Studies and how this new scholarly field may be constructed using both old and new approaches and insights. The fifth chapter is dedicated to contemporary thinkers and is the first time that theses of the most prominent scholars of Image Studies are critically analyzed and presented in one place.
Reviews
Keith Moxey
Barbara Novak Professor Emeritus, Barnard College/Columbia University, New YorkEnormous and fundamental collection: histories, essential theories, interdisciplinary connections and many main thinkers. A must have for all interested in images.
Oliver Grau
Center for Image Science, Danube University, Krems
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies
Editors: Krešimir Purgar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71830-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71829-9Published: 02 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71832-9Published: 03 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71830-5Published: 01 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 984
Number of Illustrations: 125 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Cultural Theory, Arts, Aesthetics, Semiotics, Cultural Studies