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Writing the Image After Roland Barthes
Jean-Michel Rabaté
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Description for Writing the Image After Roland Barthes
Paperback. Contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media and popular culture. Editor(s): Rabate, Jean-Michel. Num Pages: 296 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, Jean-Michel Rabaté and nineteen contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media and popular culture.
In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, Jean-Michel Rabaté and nineteen contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media and popular culture.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
475g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812215960
SKU
V9780812215960
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About Jean-Michel Rabaté
Jean-Michel Rabate is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of several books, including The Ghosts of Modernity (1995).
Reviews for Writing the Image After Roland Barthes
"An extensive volume of Barthes's work on film, photography, and visual culture has been overdue. Jean-Michel Rabaté has chosen an apt moment to fill this gap."
Gabriele Schwab, University of California, Irvine
"A valuable, exciting, and welcome addition to the commentary in English on Roland Barthes."
Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario
Gabriele Schwab, University of California, Irvine
"A valuable, exciting, and welcome addition to the commentary in English on Roland Barthes."
Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario