Feldges American Icons

The Genesis of a National Visual Language
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-135-91190-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Despite the work that has been done on the power of visual communication in general, and about the social influence of television in particular, television’s relationship with reality is still something of a black box. Even today, the convention that the screen functions as a window on reality structures much of the production and reception of televisual narratives. But as reality ought to become history at one point, what are we to do with such windows on the past?

Developing and applying a highly innovative approach to the modern picture, American Icons sets out to expose the historicity of icons, to reframe the history of the screen and to dissect the visual core of a medium that is still so poorly understood. Dismantling the aura of apparently timeless icons and past spectacles with their seductive power to attract the eye, this book offers new ways of seeing the mechanisms at work in our modern pictorial culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feldges, Benedikt

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part A: Icons in the Museum

Part B: Kaleidoscopic Spectacles

Part C: Hyperrealism

Appendix

Glossary: Four Codes of Visual Language

Notes

Listing of Sources

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Benedikt Feldges currently works at the FEBL, Institute of Continuous Education, Kanton Baselland, in Switzerland.