Image Studies

This work explores meaning in health and medicine and the role of the humanities and social sciences in coming to terms with sickness, diagnosis, prognosis, and death. The case studies present a serie

This book presents case studies of various athletes, sports, and public relations scenarios with prescriptive advice for those attempting to repair athletic reputations. This invaluable study is an es

Image Studies offers an engaging introduction to visual and image studies.In order to better understand images and visual culture the book seeks to bridge between theory and practice; asking the reade

Image Studies offers an engaging introduction to visual and image studies.In order to better understand images and visual culture the book seeks to bridge between theory and practice; asking the reade

Repairing the Athlete’s Image: Studies in Sports Image Restoration, edited by Joseph R. Blaney, Lance Lippert, and J. Scott Smith, present case studies of various athletes, sports, and public relation

"When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method--and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery--

When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery -

This collection of essays in honor of Anglo-Saxon scholar Eamonn O Carragain reflects his interest in interdisciplinary studies of the medieval period. Presented by Minnis (English, Yale) and Roberts

This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the psy

The artificial presence of the objects visible in an image must be understood as the specific characteristic of each and every image in order for the disciplines of image studies to work with a concep

These collected studies on the philosophy of the image offer the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible. Images present things as exclusively visible, re

Following on from the success of the first edition, this new text offers a revised andupdated introduction to the central concepts in media, culture and communication studies: language and representat

This book brings the study of nineteenth-century illustrations into the digital age. The key issues discussed include the difficulties of making illustrations visible online, the mechanisms for search

This monograph focuses on the use of analysis and processing methods for images from the CorvisR ST tonometer. The presented analysis is associated with the quantitative, repeatable and fully automati

The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world—ephemeral print—but which have received little scholarly attention in the pas

Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print brings together established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dynamic relationships between words and i

A collection of four essays on aesthetic, ethical, and political issues by Dieter Henrich, the preeminent Kant scholar in Germany today.

This is a collection of four essays on aesthetic, ethical, and political issues by Dieter Henrich, the preeminent Kant scholar in Germany today. Although his interests have ranged widely, he is perhap

DISCO! Music, Image, Dance takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring disco's untold stories--sonic, visual, and kinetic--from its popular heyday to its many afterlives. The book attests to disco's irrepressibility in cultural practices from the 1970s to the 2020s, tracing its histories and instantiations as these traverse geographies, affects, and memories, and exploring the reaches of disco as an expansive field of music, image, and dance. Illustrating how disco shows up in multiple and surprising ways across its times and spaces, chapters track the ubiquity of disco not only in relation to music and nightlife but also fashion, film, literature, poetry, dance, performance art, digital media, museums, exercise, activism, and community. DISCO! offers an expanded and necessarily ambivalent view of the value of disco-its embrace of both the ridiculous and the sublime, and its involvement in both progressive and reactionary social tendencies. Stretching disco studies towards a more

An in-depth study of the expanding role of the moving image in British art over the past thirty years Over the past three decades the moving image has grown from a marginalized medium of British art i

Using the new C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards, Body Image in the Media in the Global Citizens: Modern Media series explores the sport through the lenses of History, Geography, Civics, and Ec

This collection of essays is a tribute to Andrzej Kopcewicz, the first professor ordinarius of American literature in the history of English studies in Poland. It coincides with the centenary of Imagi

Bookstores in Chinese cities are stocked with dozens of Chinese-language books on how Jews conduct business, manage the world, and raise their children. At least ten universities throughout China offe

This volume focuses on popular film, television, and online representations of contested corporealities and contributes to visual culture studies, disability studies, critical pedagogy, and medical hu

The book is divided into three sectionsThe first section, `Inheritance and Transmission' sets the scene with contributions examining the interplay of classical and Christian ideas in late antique text