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- Title
16Visual Culture.
- Authors
Mirzoeff, Nicholas
- Abstract
This chapter looks firstly at books and then at journals in the field of visual culture published in 2007 and 2008. The books reviewed in this section address the visual culture that has emerged out of contemporary global shifts that are particularly linked to issues of conflict, witnessing and trauma. These books include criticism of post-Cold War images of the fall of the Berlin Wall, photos from the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Holocaust criticism, and images taken from the Israeli Occupied Territories on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Recent edited collections that cover topics such as human rights, trauma and witnessing add to a body of recent critical material that documents the experiences of twenty-first century global media culture from a global perspective, from 9/11 to the Shock and Awe campaign and photos of Abu Ghraib. The postcolonial turn in visual culture is also represented in recent collections. The journal issues covered illustrate the contemporary use of new media visual culture to develop an innovative critical scholarship in visual culture criticism. The chapter is divided into two sections: 1. Books; 2. Journals.
- Publication
Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory, 2010, Vol 18, Issue 1, p327
- ISSN
1077-4254
- Publication type
Article