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The right to look : a counterhistory of visuality / Nicholas Mirzoeff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and world politics.
- Communication and culture--Political aspects.
- Communication and culture.
- Mass media--Political aspects.
- Mass media.
- Visual communication--Political aspects.
- Visual communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This sweeping comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, a field the author helped shape, casts modernity as a contest between visuality and countervisuality, or the right to look.
- Contents:
- Oversight : the ordering of slavery
- The modern imaginary : anti-slavery revolutions and the right to existence
- Visuality : authority and war
- Abolition realism : reality, realisms, and revolution
- Imperial visuality and countervisuality, ancient and modern
- Anti-fascist neorealisms : North-South and the permanent battle for Algiers
- Global counterinsurgency and the crisis of visuality.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613335227
- 9781283335225
- 1283335220
- 9780822393726
- 0822393727
- OCLC:
- 761742646
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