Visions of Modernity: Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera

By Scott McQuire

Visions of Modernity explores the relationship between technology, society, and identity that underpins contemporary "media culture." By tracing particular historical shifts as they have intersected with different camera technologies photography, cinema, television Scott McQuire engages with broad social and political transformations. Focusing on the camera, McQuire offers a useful point of entry for understanding the processes of modernization and the dramatic changes perceptual, experiential, epistemological that characterize modernity. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, media and cultural studies, art history, geography, and anthropology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761953019
• ISBN13: 9780761953012
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"