| Visions of Modernity: Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera Contributor(s): McQuire, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761953019 ISBN-13: 9780761953012 Publisher: Sage Publications UK OUR PRICE: $79.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 Annotation: Visions of Modernity explores the relationship between technology, society, and identity that underpins contemporary "media culture." By tracing particular historical shifts as they have intersected with different camera technologies??photography, cinema, television??Scott McQuire engages with broad social and political transformations. Focusing on the camera, McQuire offers a useful point of entry for understanding the processes of modernization and the dramatic changes??perceptual, experiential, epistemological??that characterize modernity. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, media and cultural studies, art history, geography, and anthropology. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Philosophy - Religion | Reference - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 770.1 |
| LCCN: 97-069468 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 288 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This overview of modern visual culture explores the relationship between technology, society and identity which underpins contemporary media culture′. While tracing historical shifts as they have developed through, or intersected with, different camera technologies, the book is not so much about the camera′s field of vision: it is concerned with processes of modernization and the dramatic changes - perceptual, experiential, epistemological - which characterize modernity. Using the camera and its technologies as symbols of realism′, Scott McQuire interweaves: the history of visual culture from Lumiere to virtual reality by way of photography, cinema and television; the broad social and political transformations of t |
Contributor Bio(s): McQuire, Scott: - Scott McQuire completed his PhD in the Politics Department at the University of Melbourne in 1995. He has a strong interest in interdisciplinary research and has lectured in disciplines including politics, sociology, cinema studies, art and architecture, and media and communication. Scott has held a number of research fellowships including a visiting fellowship at the Department of Film, Theatre and Television, UCLA (1998), an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2000), and a visiting fellowship at the Celeste Bartos International Film Study Center, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2000). He returned to the University of Melbourne to help establish the Media and Communication Programme in 2001. He is an active researcher who has been a Chief Investigator on six Australian Research Council funded projects. He has also received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, and has undertaken research consultancies for the Communications Law Centre, the Australian Film Commission and the Australian Key Centre for Media and Cultural Policy. |