Visual culture

Burgin, Victor. 1996. In/Dijferent Spaces Place and Memory in Visual Culture. Berkeley University of California Press. 

Henderson, K. (1999). On line and on paper Visual representations, visual culture, and computer graphics in design engineering. Cambridge, MA MIT Press. 

See Maggie Humm, Modernist Women and Visual Cultures Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema (Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 2002) and Snapshots of Bloomsbury The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell (London Tate, 2006), as well as chapter ii below. 

Woolf s key essay about visual culture is The Cinema , one of the first British essays to identify cinema s potential in modernism. The essay was triggered by Woolf s interest in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene in Germany in 1919. The film depicts a story told by a madman about a psychopathic murder, and interweaves nightmare and reality. Woolf s essay is only tangentially about the film itself and focuses more on issues of the psychoanalytic and film spectatorship in general. The Cinema addresses her central concerns elsewhere in her work how common viewers experience film and film s psychic power the relationship between film and the arts and film s status and future. 

See Maggie Humm, Modernist Women and Visual Cultures Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema (Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 2002). 

PB It s strange, really. We talk about living in a very visual culture, for young people, especially, and of course they do. Actually however language is also very important to them. 

ELLEN w. SAPEGA is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her publications include articles and book chapters on Portuguese modernism, memory, visual culture, and commemoration since the late nineteenth century, and the contemporary Portuguese novel. Author of Ficfoes Modernistas and Consensus and Debate in Salazar s Portugal, she is also co-editor of the Luso-Brazilian Review. 

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