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Description

1. xiii, 232 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "In this landmark work of critical theory, black studies, and visual culture studies, Alessandra Raengo boldly reads race as a theory of the image. By placing emphasis on the surface of the visual as the repository of its meaning, race presents the most enduring ontological approach to what images are, how they feel, and what they mean. Having established her theoretical concerns, the author's eclectic readings of various artifacts of visual culture, fine arts, cinema, and rhetorical tropes provoke and destabilize readers' visual comfort zone, forcing them to recognize the unstated racial aspects of viewing and the foundational role of race in informing the visual."--Back cover.

Series statement

1. Interfaces: studies in visual culture

Uniform title

1. Interfaces, studies in visual culture.

Subject

1. Black people in mass media
2. Visual sociology
3. Image (Philosophy)

Contents

1. The photochemical imagination -- On the sleeve of the visual -- The money of the real -- The long photographic century -- In the shadow.

Call number

1. Sc E 13-1148

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Raengo, Alessandra.

Title

1. On the sleeve of the visual : race as face value / Alessandra Raengo.

Publisher

1. Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2013]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Interfaces: studies in visual culture
2. Interfaces, studies in visual culture.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2012042090

ISBN

1. 9781584659754 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 1584659750 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9781584659747 (pbk.)
4. 1584659742 (pbk.)
5. 9781611684490 (pbk.)
6. 1611684498 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. Sc E 13-1148