[Commlist] New book: Visual Studies - A Social Scientific Perspective

**Visual Studies. A Social Scientific Perspective**/
/Paolo Favero and Asko Lehmuskallio

https://www.routledge.com/Visual-Studies-A-Social-Scientific-Perspective/Favero-Lehmuskallio/p/book/9781350128903?srsltid=AfmBOopFlkSgikj0DNV6B1CKBArlC6ZKO3KePdoS9k5uUmmisOTY4I5W


This book presents a transcultural and generative introduction to the 
field of visual studies. Aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at 
students and scholars in the social sciences (incl. media and 
communication), it explores the multiple meanings of images and visual 
culture in human life.

Divided into three parts, the first section departs from a framework of 
the look as a medium for understanding imaging practices and offers a 
critical analysis of the changing ways in which vision has been 
understood across epochs and cultures and the politics attached. The 
second section opens with an expanded understanding of images, 
addressing their affective, sensory and performative roles. It then 
discusses semiotic tensions between the icon and the index and the role 
of social interaction in the visual field and ends with an analysis of 
immersive viewing in a creative juxtaposition between distinct, 
culturally situated, imaging practices. Building on the previous 
sections, the third part provides a series of applications in specific 
terrains, such as on the significance of faces, on cameras and their 
environments, the visual culture of death, x-ray imagery and the meaning 
and role of shadows. Insisting on the role of the look as a medium for 
studying the visual field, this book reminds us of the importance of 
images not only as representations of the world but also as proper 
co-travellers and companions of our journeys on the earth.

The book serves as an ideal introductory text for courses across the 
social sciences by directing the reader’s attention to the generativity 
and interactivity of imaging practices.

Authors:
Paolo S.H. Favero is Professor of Visual Cultures and Anthropology at 
the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi), University of 
Antwerp, Belgium.

Asko Lehmuskallio is Professor of Visual Studies at the Communcation 
Sciences Unit and Director of the Visual Studies Lab at Tampere 
University, Finland.


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