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General Sites
on Visual Culture
Aesthetics
and Visual Theory
- Analysis
of Visual Images -- Ross Woodrow, School of Fine Art,
University of Newcastle, Australia (excellent!!!)
- Art
and the Semiotics of Images: Three Questions About Visual Meaning
-- George L. Dillon (U. of Washington)
- excerpt
from Ways of Seeing -- John Berger
- "Reading
the Figural" -- D.N. Rodowick (1991)
- "Audiovisual
Culture and Interdisciplinary Knowledge" -- D. N.
Rodowick (1995)
- "Paradoxes
of the Visual" -- D.N. Rodowick (1996)
- "Breaking
Down the Preserves of Visual Production" -- Angela
Miller (American Art, Summer 1997, Vol. 11, No. 2)
- "Visual
Culture: A New Paradigm" -- William Innes Homer (American
Art, Spring 1998, Vol. 12, No. 1)
- "Is TV
Dead?: Television As We Know It May Be Dying, but Painting
Certainly Isn't" -- David Hockney (American
Art, Fall 1998
Vol. 12, No. 3)- "Introduction to
Seeing" -- Richard Gregory
- "The
Power of
Elvis" -- Erika Doss (American Art,
Summer 1997, Volume 11, Number 2)
- 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 (from Continuum: The Australian Journal of
Media
& Culture, 1991)
- "Entertainment,
looking (again)" -- William Routt (from Continuum:
The Australian Journal of Media & Culture, 1991)
- "Capitalism
and Schizophrenia: Contemporary Visual Culture and the
Acceleration of Identity Formation/Dissolution" -- Jonah
Peretti (Negations: an interdisciplinary journal of
social thought, No. 1, Winter 1996)
- "Beyond
Figuration, Below the Threshold: Some Observations on
Postmodernism and the Sublime" -- Nicoletta Pireddu (Negations:
an interdisciplinary journal of social thought, No. 1,
Winter 1996)
- "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.)
The
Fine Arts (Drawing, Painting, Sculpture)
Architecture
Photography
Film
- Feminist Theory and Visual Culture
-- Laura Mulvey and "The Gaze" (male and otherwise)
- "Visual
Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" -- Laura Mulvey
- "Feminist Film
Theory" (draft essay for The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics)
-- Cynthia A. Freeland
- "Notes on
‘The Gaze’" -- Daniel Chandler
- "The Gaze"
-- Women's Studies Program, Northern Arizona U.
- Summary of
Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" --
Maricarmen Martínez
- "Introduction:
'The Male Gaze' and Scopic Economy" -- Madeline H.
Caviness
- "Laura Mulvey
Against the Grain: A Critical Assessment of The Psychoanalytic Feminist
Approach to
Film" -- Terje S. Skjerdal,
University of
Natal
- "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
- "Feminist
Cinema and Visual Pain -- Laura Mulvey: 'Visual Pleasure
and Narrative
Cinema'" -- John Haber
- "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
- "The
Eyes of Laura Mulvey: Subjects, Objects and Cinematic
Pleasures" -- Matthew Henry
- "Race
and the Dominant Gaze: Narratives of Law and Inequality in
Popular
Film" -- Margaret M. Russell, Santa Clara
University
School of Law
- "Laura
Mulvey's Appropriation of the Gaze into Feminist Film Theory"
-- Kyle Edwards
- "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
- Mulvey
commenting on reviews of her Fetishism and Curiosity
(Film and Philosophy)
- "Psychoanalysis
and Film Study in the 1990s" -- Krin
Gabbard
- "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
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