Visual Culture Reader Book

	List of illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Permissions
	Introductions/Provocations/Conversations
1	The Subject of Visual Culture	3
2	Studying Visual Culture	24
3	Narrativizing Visual Culture: Towards a Polycentric Aesthetics	37
4	Kino-I, Kino-World: Notes on the Cinematic Mode of Production	60
5	Showing Seeing: A Critique of Visual Culture	86
6	Conversations in Visual Culture	102
	Plug-in theory
	Introduction to Plug-in Theory	111
7	Optics	116
8	The Fetishism of the Commodity	122
9	Double Consciousness	124
10	What is a Picture?	126
11	The Fact of Blackness	129
12	Woman in a Mirror	132
13	Rhetoric of the Image	135
14	Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses	139
15	The Society of the Spectacle	142
16	Simulacra and Simulations	145
17	Prohibition, Psychoanalysis and the Heterosexual Matrix	147
18	Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers	152
Pt. 1	Global/Digital
	Introduction to Part One	161
19	Here and Now	173
20	Remaking Passports: Visual Thought in the Debate on Multiculturalism	180
21	Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness	190
22	The Multiple Viewpoint: Diaspora and Visual Culture	204
23	Gender, Race and Nation in Japanese Contemporary Art and Criticism	215
24	Of Other Spaces	229
25	Spectres of Cyberspace	237
26	Othering Space	243
27	'Where Do You Want to Go Today?' Cybernetic Tourism, The Internet, and Transnationality	255
28	Eden by Wire: Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape	264
29	Satellite and Cyber Visualities: Analyzing 'Digital Earth'	279
Pt. 2	Spectacle and Display
	Introduction to Part Two	295
30	Historical Citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies: Frederick Wiseman Comes to Western Australia	307
31	Visual Stories	324
32	The Great Un-American Numbers Game	339
33	The Wall, the Screen and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial	357
34	The Prison House of Culture: Why African Art? Why the Guggenheim? Why Now?	371
35	Videotech	383
36	The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Flaneur/Flaneuse	395
37	What Is Digital Cinema?	405
38	Film and the Digital in Visual Studies: Film Studies in the Era of Convergence	417
39	Kung Fu Cinema and Frugality	433
40	The Video Public Sphere	451
41	Reload: Liveness, Mobility and the Web	458
Pt. 3	Visual Colonialism/Visual Transculture
	Introduction to Part Three
42	Visual Regimes of Colonization: Aboriginal Seeing and European Vision in Australia	483
43	Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order	495
44	Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising	506
45	From the Colonial Harem	519
46	Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade	525
47	'His Master's Obi': Machine Magic, Colonial Violence, and Transculturation	533
48	Passing for White, Passing for Black	546
49	The Other History of Intercultural Performance	556
50	Photography and the Substance of the Image	565
51	Engendering New Worlds: Allegories of Rape and Reconciliation	584
Pt. 4	The Gaze, the Body and Sexuality
	Introduction to Part Four
52	Ideal Masculinities: An Anatomy of Power	603
53	The Forbidden Gaze: Women Artists and the Male Nude in Late Nineteenth-Century France	617
54	Reduplicative Desires	625
55	The Third Body: Patterns in the Construction of the Subject in Gay Male Narrative Film	636
56	Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and Fashion Imagery	654
57	The Transgender Gaze in Boys Don't Cry	669
58	The Persistence of Vision	677
59	On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological Production of the Gendered Body	685
60	Dispersed Subjects and the Demise of the 'Individual': 1990s Bodies In/As Art	696
	Notes on contributors	711
	Index	717