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• Art History:  A Preliminary Handbook  --  Robert J. Belton,  U. of British Columbia, Okanagan
• Words of Art  --  Robert Belton,  U. of British Columbia, Okanagan
• ArtLex -- Art Dictionary  --  Michael Delahunt
• Glossary of Art Terms  --  Nancy Doyle Fine Arts
• The Tate Glossary  --  Tate Museums Online
  
• Glossary of Photographic Terminology  --  Taschen and George Eastman House
• Theories of Media (and Mediation) Glossary  --  U. of Chicago  (W. J. T. Mitchell and others)
  
• Aesthetics and Visual Culture:  a  webliography  --  Bruce Janz,  U. of Central Florida  
• Environmental Art and Visual Culture resources  --  Washington State U.
  
• Media and Communication Studies  --  Daniel Chandler,  U. of Wales, Aberystwyth
• Semiotics  --  Martin Ryder,  U. of Colorado, Denver
  
• Visual Communication - Visual Rhetorics  --  U. of  Iowa
• Visual Communication Images with Messages   --  Paul Martin Lester, California State U., Fullerton
  
• What is Visual Literary?  --  The Online Visual Literacy Project, Pomona College
  

• ArtForum
• The Art Newspaper
• ArtNet Magazine
• Arts Journal:  The Daily Digest of Arts and Cultural Journalism
• Eye Magazine
• Invisible Culture:  An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture
• Modernity:  Critiques of Visual Culture
• Tate Papers  (London)  
  

• Eyes on Art:  A Learning to Look Curriculum
• Artists' Toolkit  (exploring how visual elements and principles work)
  
• Interviews and Online Works  --  W.J.T. Mitchell  
• "Visual Culture and Visual Studies in the United States"  --  Maren Stange
• Art and the Semiotics of Images: Three Questions About Visual Meaning  --  George L. Dillon,  U. of Washington
• excerpt from Ways of Seeing  --  John Berger
• "Introduction to Seeing" -- Richard Gregory
• Visual Perception  --  Daniel Chandler  (from Chandler's superb Media and Communication Studies site)
• "Can Pictures Lie?" -- Winfred Noth  (Semiotic Review of Books)
• Vision and Art tutorials  --  John H. Frantz
• "Introduction to William Routt's 'Entertainment, Looking (Again)'"  --  John Richardson,  Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture
• "Entertainment, looking (again)"  --  William Routt,  Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture
• "Capitalism and Schizophrenia:  Contemporary Visual Culture and the Acceleration of Identity Formation/Dissolution"  -- Jonah Peretti,  Negations:  an interdisciplinary journal of  social thought  
• "Beyond Figuration, Below the Threshold:  Some Observations on  Postmodernism and the Sublime" --  Nicoletta Pireddu,  Negations:  an interdisciplinary journal of  social thought
• "How to Read Images"  (an ideological reading of images and the French Revolution, from LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION)
• "Reading Images:  Approaches for Visual Literacy"
• "Graphic Design for Educators" --  Teun Velders  (an excellent online course from Kansas State U.)
• "Introduction to Reading Images"
• "Introduction:  The Self Portrait Image"
• "Describing Images: Pre-iconographical Descriptions, Identification and Use of Visual Elements"
• "Describing Images: Graphic Design and the Web"
• "Interpreting Images: Human Character Representations in Images (Denotation)"
• "Interpreting Images: Iconography, Symbolism and Iconology of Visual Elements (Connotation)"
• "Visual Metaphors in Advertisement Images"
• "Visual Literacy Adequately Applied"

• The Artchive  --  Mark Harden
• Web Gallery of Art   --  
  
• Art History Resources on the Web  --  Chris Witcombe, Sweet Briar College
• WWW Virtual Library:  History of Art
• Voice of the Shuttle Art and Art History Links
• Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page  --  U. of Michigan, School of Art and Design
• Artcyclopedia--The Fine Arts Search Engine
• "The Reading Images Project"   (extensive site on Raphael's The School of Athens)

• Voice of the Shuttle Architecture Links
• "Text as Hairspray"  -- John Outram
• "A Place Between:  Art, Architecture and Critical Theory"  --  Jane Rendell
• Manifold magazine
• Katarxis webzine
• INTBAU:  International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism  --  Essays
  

• Photowings
• Voice of the Shuttle Photography Links
• Web Resources for Photography  --  U. of British Columbia, Canada
• History of Photography:  Guide to Print Research  -- Rochester Institute of Technology Library
• Masters of Photography
• A History of Photography  (from its beginnings to 1920) -- Robert Leggat
• The American Museum of Photography
  
• Fixing Shadows:  Still Photography  --  J. David Sapir, U. of Vierginia
  
• "Timothy O'Sullivan:  Shadows of Subjectivity on the Photographer's Frame" -- Elizabeth Paul
• Get the Picture:  Thinking About Photography  --  Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• "The Treacherous Medium:  Why Photography Critics Hate Photographs"  --  Susan Linfield,  New York University
  
• "Photogenic Papers" --  special issue of Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture (1991)
• "Camera Lucida: Roland Barthes, Jean-Paul Sartre and the Photographic Image" --  Ron Burnett

• Internet Movie Database  (IMDB)
• Movie Review Query Engine  (MRQE)
• All Movie Guide  (AMG)
• Voice of the Shuttle Film and Video Links
• Film Studies Resources  -- Dept. of Communication Studies, U. of Iowa
• Film - Philosophy:  Online Writings  
  

• Feminist Theory and Visual Culture  --  Laura Mulvey and "The Gaze"  (male and otherwise)

• "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"  --  Laura Mulvey
• Reading Guide to Mulvey on Cinema and Psychoanalysis  --  Dave Harris and Colleagues
  
• "Feminist Film Theory"  (draft essay for The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics) --  Cynthia A. Freeland
• "Notes on ‘The Gaze’"    --  Daniel Chandler
• Summary of Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"  --  Maricarmen Martínez
• "Laura Mulvey Against the Grain: A Critical Assessment of The Psychoanalytic Feminist Approach to Film"  --  Terje S.  Skjerdal,   University of Natal
• "Feminist Cinema and Visual Pain  --  Laura Mulvey: 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'"  --  John Haber
• "Laura Mulvey's Appropriation of the Gaze into Feminist Film Theory"  --  Kyle Edwards
• "Xena:  Warrior Princess, The Lesbian Gaze, and the Construction of a Feminist Heroine"  --  Atara Stein
• "Feminist Film Criticism:  The Piano and 'the Female Gaze'"   --  Diana Saco
• "The Glory of Cary Grant and Other Girlish Delights"  --  Elizabeth Abele
• "The Feminine Gaze in Notorious and The Paradine Case"  --  Elizabeth Abele
• "Nice Shoes, Wanna Fuck?: Gender Construction and Performance in Formally-defined Heterosexual Space"  --  Erin, Michaela, Amber, Katie, Jenna and Anya:  Swarthmore College Women's Studies Project
• "Race and the Dominant Gaze: Narratives of  Law and Inequality in Popular Film"  --  Margaret M. Russell,  Santa Clara University School of Law
• "Pre-Raphaelite Women, Part A --  The Male Gaze:  D. G. Rossetti"  --  Kathleen L. Nichols,  Pittsburg State University, Kansas
• "De-Composed Women/Discomposed Spectators:  Refracting the Gaze in The French Lieutenant's Woman, She's Gotta Have It, and Vagabond" --   Joanne Klein, St. Mary's College of Maryland
• "This is Not Going to Have a Happy Ending":  Searching for New Representations of Hollywood Masculinities in David Fincher's Se7e"  --  Pentti Haddington,  University of Oulu

• Advertising Resources  --  Dept. of Communication Studies, U. of Iowa
• Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters
• "'Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful':  A Commercial In Context  -- Gerald Grow
• American Advertising and the Science of Signs -- extensive class website from Lewis and Clark College
  
• "Women's Bodies in Sports Ads" 
• "Toward a Critical Theory of Advertising"  --  John Harms, Southwest Missouri State U., and Douglas Kellner, UT at Austin 
• "Visual Semiotics and the Production of Meaning in Advertising"  --  Sandra Moriarty, U. of Colorado, Boulder 
• Taking ADvantage:  The Psychology of Consumer Behavior  --  Richard F. Taflinger, Washington State U.
  • "Taking ADvantage  You and Me, Babe: Sex and Advertising"

• Glossary of Graphic Design and Web Design terms
• The History of Visual Communication
• Info Design
• Information Aesthetics blog  --  Andrew Vande Moere,  U. of Sydney, Australia
• "Designs of the Future:  Designs by El Lissitzky"  (Getty Research Institute)
• The Italian Futurist Book  (Maurizio Scudiero)
• Design Language etc.--  theoretical and practical aspects of industrial design   (Andries Van Onck)

• Jolique:  Exploring Dress and Culture
• Beauty Matters
• Fashion Worlds
  
• Theories of Fashion:  Costume and Fashion History  --  Pauline Weston Thomas
  
• "Chic Theory"  --  Joanne Finkestein,  Australian Humanities Review
• "Fashion"   --  Edward A. Ross,  Social Psychology:  An Outline and Source Book  (1908; 1919)
  

• Stuart Moulthrop home page
• Poems That Go
• links from Poems That Go   (poetry and digital culture)

• Introduction to Contemporary Visual Art:  Theory, Practice, Institutions  (Fall 2005)  --  Martin Irvine,  Georgetown U.
• Introduction to Media Theory and Visual Culture  (Fall 2005)  --  Martin Irvine,  Georgetown U. 
• Institutions of Visual Culture  (Spring 2005)  --  Martin Irvine,  Georgetown U.