Imaging Identity Text, Mediality and Contemporary Visual Culture /

Imaging Identity Text, Mediality and Contemporary Visual Culture /

"A provocative book that is frequently as delightful as insightful. Its ambitious scope-ranging from the selfie and hip-hop celebrity culture to Vietnam War photography and image/text relationships-and its deep engagement with theory and cultures will make this an exciting book for scholars acr...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Riquet, Johannes (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Heusser, Martin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Photography.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Images of Identity: Text, Visuality and Modern Culture, Johannes Riquet and Martin Heusser
  • Part I: Digital Images of Identity
  • 2. From the "Belfie" to the Death-of-me: The Affective Archive of the Self/ie, Misha Kavka
  • 3. Calculating Lives? Memory, Archive and Identity in a Digital Era, Holger Pötzsch
  • 4. Modelling Vision: Semeiotic Approach to Algorithmic Images, Stephanie Schneider
  • Part II: Written Images of Identity
  • 5. Ideal Identities and Impossible Translations: Drawing on Writing and Writing on Drawing, Tilo Reifenstein
  • 6. On Identification and Narrative Identity: Self-Formation in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, Nicole Frey Büchel
  • 7. Art, Arcadia and Images of Identity in John Banville's Frames Trilogy, Alexander G. Z. Myers
  • Part III: Contested Images of Identity
  • 8. W. B. Yeats's The Dreaming of the Bones: Self-Consuming Images of Identity, Chris Morash
  • 9. Images of the Vietnam War: Photojournalism, Memory and Civic Spectatorship in Life Magazine, Martin Heusser
  • 10. "That was my truest voice": Rap Identities Between Authenticity and Fame, Ana Sobral
  • 11. Terrorist Self-Fashioning: Politics, Identity, and the Making of "Martyrdom" Videos - from the 7/7 Bombers to Four Lions, Michael C. Frank
  • Part IV: Idealised Images of Identity
  • 12. Islands as (Floating) Images: Towards a Poetic Theory of Island Geography, Johannes Riquet
  • 13. "Come see my land": Watching the Tropical Island Paradise Die in Poetry, Daniel Graziadei
  • 14. Island Images and Imaginations: Beyond the Typical Tropical, Godfrey Baldacchino.

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