Practices of Looking bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The fourth edition has been updated to represent the contemporary visual cultural landscape and includes topics like the increasingly rapid global circulation of media, the rise of design and DIY cultures, digital media art and activism, and challenges to photojournalism and news media.
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Practices of Looking bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The fourth edition has been updated to represent the contemporary visual cultural landscape and includes topics like the increasingly rapid global circulation of media, the rise of design and DIY cultures, digital media art and activism, and challenges to photojournalism and news media.
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Add this copy of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture to cart. $112.72, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2025 by Oxford University Press.
This was a gift to a friend who is keeping me abreast of all he has learned. He says above all what he has read thus far has empowered him to SEE!
Lawrence S
Sep 23, 2010
Bad academic book
This book has nothing to do with looking and everything to do with interpreting using dull academic frameworks with a heavy emphasis on feminism to suit the authors interests.
The Pageturner
Sep 15, 2008
Textbook is Redundant
My experience with this textbook has been a very bland one. The language is simple, but becomes confusing because the authors have made it redundant. It would be a mediocre book if there were not so many unnecessary vocabulary words for the same thing. For example, the author's bring in the terms "signs" "signifier" and "signified" which could have easily have been just "connotative" and "denotative". It is good because it thoroughly explains the Marxist theory and would be appropriate for beginning college students, Other than that, I am positive that there are better textbooks to replace this one.
