The Politics of Pictures / The Creation of the Public in the Age of Popular Media
- 1st
- Rouledge, 1992
- 242
This book searches for the public in the realm of media, where citizens are now literally represented on screen and on page. Acknowledgements, Publicity (Introduction), Public Pictures, Popular Reality: A (Hair) Brush with Cultural Studies, Agoraphilia: The Politics of Pictures, No Picnic: For All Flesh is as Grass, Power Viewing: A Glance at Pervasion in the Postmodern Perplex, The Pictures of Politics, The Smiling Professions: From a Sea Monster to Synchronized Swimming, Heliography: Journalism and the Visualization of Truth, Common Sense: Universal v. Adversarial Journalism, Journalism in a Post-Truth Society: The Sexualization of the Body Politic, Notes, Bibliography, Index.