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Visions of Modernity

其他書名	Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera
出版	SAGE Publications, 1998-02-06
主題	Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN	07619530009780761953005
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kNLbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This overview of modern visual culture explores the relationship between technology, society and identity which underpins contemporary `media culture'. While tracing historical shifts as they have developed through, or intersected with, different camera technologies, the book is not so much about the camera's field of vision: it is concerned with processes of modernization and the dramatic changes - perceptual, experiential, epistemological - which characterize modernity.

Using the camera and its technologies as symbols of `realism', Scott McQuire interweaves: the history of visual culture from Lumiere to virtual reality by way of photography, cinema and television; the broad social and political transformations of t