Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Practices of looking: Images, Power, and Politics; 2. Viewers Make Meaning; 3. Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge; 4. Reproduction and Visual Technologies; 5. The Mass Media and the Public Sphere; 6. Consumer Culture and the Manufacturing of Desire; 7. Postmodernism and Popular Culture; 8. Scientific Looking, Looking at Science; 9. The Global Flow of Visual Culture; Glossary; Index

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About the Author

Marita Sturken is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, teaching cultural studies, popular culture, and issues of technology and culture. She previously worked as a critic in independent film and video, and is the author of; Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic and the Politics of Remembering, University of California Press (1997) and Thelma and Louise, British Film Institute Modern Classics Series (2000). Lisa Cartwright is Associate Professor at the University of Rochester, and Director of the Susan B. Institute for Gender and Women's Studies. She is the author of Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture and co-editor of The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science