| Race and Visual Culture in Global Times Contributor(s): Sharma, Ashwani (Author) |
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ISBN: 1780931557 ISBN-13: 9781780931555 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $64.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of March 6, 2025 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.8 |
| Physical Information: 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The world of images is radically challenging our understanding of race and politics. This book examines the changing representation of race and ethnicity in the visual culture of the first decade of the 21st century - a period marked by the traumas of 9/11, the 'war on terror', and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism. Through this exploration the author highlights the contradictions of a media culture in which discourses of multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and cultural hybridity are juxtaposed with images of Islamophobia, ethnic nationalism and anti-immigrant racism. In contrast to dominant approaches the book situates racial, postcolonial, diasporic and feminist aesthetics in relation to shifts in global capitalism, class and commodity culture.Through an analysis of global news media, independent film, television drama, Hollywood cinema, science fiction, horror, photography, experimental digital art and pop culture it affirms the continued political significance of the visual and the body in contemporary culture. |