W. J. T. William John Thomas Mitchell (Books)

W. J. T. William John Thomas Mitchell Books

William J. Thomas Mitchell, professor of English and Art History, delves into media theory and visual culture, drawing from thinkers like Freud and Marx. He posits that images should be understood as living entities, exploring their nature and our engagement with them. Mitchell continually re-examines visual culture, particularly in light of digital media, seeking to conceptualize images as a form of life.

Picture theory : essays on verbal and visual representation

462 pages
17 hours of reading

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What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.