The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the Age of Popular Media

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Psychology Press, 1992 - 240 páginas
The Politics of Pictures is a history of looking, from Aristotle to TV audiences, from the invention of photography to the meaning of picnics, from Leviathan to synchronised swimming, Dr Johnson to the sexualization of war. John Hartley's wide-ranging and sometimes bizarre journey of discovery looks for the public in the realm of media, where citizens are now literally represented on screen and page. The book investigates popular media reality by showing how pictures and texts are powerful political forces in their own right, using a variety of primary texts to explore the way publics have been created, and exploring the political uses of media audiences. The unconventional approach is designed to show how popular reality looks to itself, and how its peculiar forms and connections actually challenge some venerable political and philosophical truths.
 

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A hairbrush with cultural studies
15
The politics of pictures
28
For all flesh is as grass
42
A glance at pervasion in the postmodern
84
From a sea monster
119
Journalism and the visualization of truth
140
Universal v adversarial journalism
164
Notes
216
Bibliography
234
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