Transmission Image: Visual Translation and Cultural Agency

by Birgit Mersmann (Editor), Alexandra Schneider (Editor)

Overview

Transmission Image: Visual Translation and Cultural Agency offers a challenging survey of the burgeoning debate about visual culture in a global perspective. Bringing together scholarly perspectives on places ranging from China and India to Nigeria, and from the Philippines and Syria to Germany, this volume proposes a truly global outlook on the study of visual culture in both a contemporary and an historical perspective. Addressing key theoretical issues, the contributors cover a wide range of art forms and visual media, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and its impact on the study of visual culture and globalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443800051
Publisher:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication date:	02/01/2009
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Birgit Mersmann is professor of Non-Western and European Art at the Jacobs University Bremen, and Alexandra Schneider lecturer at the Film Studies Department of Free University Berlin. Alexandra Schneider is Lecturer at the Film Studies Department of the Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany. She has published a book on home movies (Die Stars sind wir. Marburg: Schuren, 2004) and co-edited several books, including: Flugbilder-Kinobilder vom Fliegen. Muenster: Lit Verlag (2008, forthcoming) and Import-Export. India. Germany. Austria. Berlin: Parthas (2005). Her work has been published in Visual Anthropology, Film History and Montage/av. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Nancy Adajania, Heike Behrend, Hans Belting, Peter J. Braunlein, Markus Buschhaus, Iris Darmann, Martin Gieselmann, Simone Griessmayer, Anne von der Heiden, Asko Lehmuskallio, Birgit Mersmann, and Beat Wyss.