Visual Culture Homepage


	English 172: Introduction to Visual Culture Spring 2004 Jefferson Hendricks English Department Centenary College of Louisian

Web Resources for Visual Culture

General Sites on Visual Culture

Words of Art (glossary)
ArtLex -- Art Dictionary
Arts Journal.com -- The Daily Digest of Arts and Cultural Journalism
The Art Newspaper.com
Pop Cultures.com (online articles on the Visual Arts)
Grand Illusions--the site for the enquiring mind
Iconography -- A Guide to Resources (Western Washington University Libraries)
webliography on Aesthetics and Visual Culture (Bruce Janz and Keith Harder, Augustana University College)

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)

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)

Architecture

Voice of the Shuttle Architecture Links
"Text as Hairspray" -- John Outram

Photography

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
"Timothy O'Sullivan: Shadows of Subjectivity on the Photographer's Frame" -- Elizabeth Paul
Physics of the Camera -- Nicole Atkins
"Cindy Sherman's Masquerade" -- Helen Papagiannis, U. of Toronto
modules on Cindy Sherman's photography -- Ontario Gallery of Art
"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

Film

Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE)
All Movie Guide (AMG)
Film Studies glossary (from Words of Art page)
Voice of the Shuttle Film and Video Links
Pop Cultures.com (online articles on film)
Film Studies Resources -- Dept. of Communication Studies, U. of Iowa

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

Advertising

Pop Cultures.com (excellent list of online articles on advertising)
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
"Benetton: Beatification of the Banal" (Screenmedia)
"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"

Graphic Design and Communication Arts

Glossary of Graphic Design and Web Design terms
"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)

Digital Culture

"The Ironic Dream of a Common Language for Women in the Integrated Circuit: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s or A Socialist Feminist Manifesto for Cyborgs" -- Donna Haraway (early version, 1983)
"Critique of the Word in Process" -- Michael Heim (from Electric Language: a Philosophical Study of Word Processing, 1987)
"Electronic Signs" -- Jay David Bolter (from Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, 1991)
"Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?" -- Allucquère Rosanne Stone (from Cyberspace: First Steps, 1991)
"Refiguring Culture" -- Timothy Binkley (from Future Visions: New Technologies of the Screen, 1993)
"Situating Cyberspace: The Popularisation of Virtual Reality" -- Philip Hayward (from Future Visions: New Technologies of the Screen, 1993)
"The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace" -- Michael Heim (from The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, 1993)
"The Essence of VR" -- Michael Heim (from The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, 1993)
"The Theory of the Virtual Class: Not a Wired Culture, But a Culture That is Wired Shut" -- Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinstein, (from Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class, 1994)
"From Big Brother to Electronic Panopticon" -- David Lyon (from The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society, 1994)
"How to Do Things with Pictures" -- William J. Mitchell (from The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, 1994)
"Intention and Artifice" -- William J. Mitchell (from The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, 1994)
"The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Cinematc and Electronic 'Presence'" -- Vivian Sobchack (from Materialities of Communication, 1994)
"Feminism for the Incurably Informed" -- Anne Balsamo (from Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women, 1995)
"Formatting Patrimony: The Rhetoric of Hypertext" -- John Palattella (from Afterimage, 1995)
"New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000" -- Vivian Sobchack (from Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, 1995)