Introduction to Visual Culture

An Introduction to Visual Culture is a textbook designed for use across a broad range of academic disciplines. It will outline the general parameters of the field and identify the main areas of study that have been taken up by visual culture over its early decades. The major contribution of the text will be to offer an updated view of the field and to present the most current set of issues and ideas that are shaping the contemporary discourse. While the forthcoming anthology, Readings in Contemporary Visual Culture is intended as a mid-level reader for intermediate and upper college levels, An Introduction to Visual Culture is designed as an introductory text suitable for early college level and/or students with no previous studies in the field. The two volumes can be used as the foundation for an introductory and intermediate-advanced sequence in Visual Culture.