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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Benedikt Feldges |
ISBN: | 9780415956352 0415956358 9780203937846 0203937848 0415875501 9780415875509 |
OCLC Number: | 136780685 |
Description: | vii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | PART A: Icons in the museum. Collecting pictures -- Collecting language -- -- PART B: Kaleidoscopic spectacles. Pictorial historiography -- The insignia of the spectacle -- Pictorial genres -- The narrative of the news spectacle -- Iconic lecterns -- The historicity of the documentary's imagery -- -- PART C: Hyperrealism. Pictorial supremacy -- The icon of Joe Friday: the moral in the Dragnet -- The icon of Lucy: queen of television comedy -- The icon of Edward R. Murrow: master of "the control room of studio 41" -- Walter Cronkite: court reporter of the spectacle -- Muhammad Ali: champion of the screen -- Premodernism. |
Series Title: | Routledge research in cultural and media studies, 13. |
Responsibility: | Benedikt Feldges. |
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"Feldges argues that historians must abandon the idea that pictures can be used to construct a history of what they seem to depict, embracing instead a study of visual "etymology" - that is, tracing a path of how images came to be encoded with commonly understood meanings.... the book offers both a theoretical framework for a more complex understanding of visual language, as well as a glimpse of what visual language looked like when broadcast still ruled the day." --Jason Tocci, International Journal of Communication Read more...
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