SOME WORKS ON VISUALITY, VISUAL POLITICS, AND RITUAL/SPECTACLE

Allert, Beate, ed. Languages of Visuality: Crossings between Science, Art, Politics, and Literature. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, 1996.

Alperson, Philip, ed. The Philosophy of the Visual Arts. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. (Philosophy, religion, psychology, and political theory of painting, sculpture, architecture, mechanical reproduction, and museum display.)

Andrew, Dudley, ed. The Image in Dispute: Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography. Austin: U of Texas P, 1997. (Sections on Benjamin, art and social shock, and vision/interpretation theory.)

Aronoff, Myron J. Culture and Political Change. Political Anthropology Volume 2. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1983. (Some essays on political ritual and drama included.)

Bak, János, ed. Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic Ritual. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.

Barker, Brian. The Symbols of Sovereignty. Totowa, NJ: Bowman and Littlefield, 1979. (English and Scottish royalty.)

Baudrillard, Jean. Simulations. Trans. Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman. New York: Semiotext(e), 1983. (Cf. Several other of his works, including The Ecstacy of Communication [1987/1988] and In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities or, The End of the Social and Other Essays [1983].)

Brennan, Teresa, and Martin Jay, eds. Vision in Context: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight. New York: Routledge, 1996. (Historical, socio-political.)

Carlson, Marvin. Performance: A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge, 1996. (Introduction to various theories of performance.)

Carretta, Vincent. The Snarling Muse: Verbal and Visual Political Satire from Pope to Churchill. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1983.

Case, Sue-Ellen, and Janelle Reinelt, eds. The Performance of Power: Theatrical Discourse and Politics. Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1991. (Theatrical representations as political discourses.)

Cerulo, Karen A. Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1995. (Theory of political symbols.)

Chaffee, Lyman G. Political Protest and Street Art: Popular Tools for Democratization in Hispanic Countries. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Edelman, Murray. Constructing the Political Spectacle. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.

Ellenius, Allan, ed. Iconography, Propaganda, and Legitimation. European Science Foundation. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1998.

Featherstone, Mike, and Roger Burrows. Cyberspace Cyberbodies Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995.

Foster, Hal, ed. Vision and Visuality. Dia Art Foundation Discussions in Contemporary Cultture Number 2. Seattle: Bay Press, 1988. (Martin Jay's essay on scopic regime is worth reading.)

Gombrich, E. H. The Image & The Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. 1982; rpt. London: Phaidon P Ltd., 1994.

Harrison, Andrew, ed. Philosophy and the Visual Arts: Seeing and Abstracting. Boston: D. Reidel, 1987. (Philosophies of depiction.)

Hayden, Ilse. Symbol and Privilege: The Ritual Context of British Royalty. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1987. (Royal symbols/symbology, British.)

Holly, Michael Ann. Past Looking: Historical Imagination and the Rhetoric of the Image. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UUP, 1996. (Images from past guide present interpretations.)

Jay, Martin. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. (Superior opening historical essay.)

Jenks, Chris, ed. Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, 1995. (Fascinating essays.)

Jones, Steven G., ed. Virtual Culture: Identity & Communication in Ciybersociety. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997.

Koziol, Geoffrey. Begging Pardon and Favor: Ritual and Political Order in Early Medieval France. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.

Kozloff, Max. The Privileged Eye: Essays on Photography. Albuquerque: U: of New Mexico P, 1987. (Social, political, and aesthetic criticism/theory.)

Levin, David Michael, ed. Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. (Standard work on philosophies of vision and sociopolitics.)

Levin, David Michael, ed. Sites of Vision: The Discursive Construction of Sight in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1997.

Livingston, Steven. The Terrorism Spectacle. Boulder, CO: Westview P, 1994. (Largely a news and political policy work.)

McQuiare, Scott. Visions of Modernity: Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. (Representation, photomnemonics, plasticity.)

Messaris, Paul. Visual Literacy: Image, Mind, & Reality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.

Millon, Henry A., and Linda Nochlin, eds. Art and Architecture in the Service of Politics. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1978.

Mitchell, W. J. T., ed. The Language of Images. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980. (All but one essay from the Spring 1980 issue of Critical Inquiry.)

Morley, David, and Kevin Robins. Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes, and Cultural Boundaries. The International Library of Sociology. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Muller, Mary Lee, curator. Imagery of Dissent: Protest Art from the 1930s and 1960s. [exhibit March 4-April 16, 1989, Elvehjem Museum of Art.] Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1989. (Introductory essay is informative.)

Mulryne, J. R., and Margaret Shewring, eds. Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1993.

Olson, Lester C. Emblems of American Community in the Revolutionary Era: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution P, 1991.

Piggott, Stuart. Wagon, Chariot and Carriage: Symbol and Status in the History of Transport. N.p.: Thames and Hudson, 1992.

Porter, Barbara Nevling. Images, Power, and Politics: Figurative Aspects of Esarhaddon's Babylonian Policy. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1993.

Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Russell, Gillian. The Theatres of War: Performance, Politics, and Society, 1793-1815. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1995.

Sherman, Claire Richter. Imaging Aristotle: Verbal and Visual Representation in Fourteenth-Century France. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995. (Visualization of political theory.)

Stafford, Barbara Maria. Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1995. (Standard political-aesthetic theory of images.)

Stevenson, Nick. Understanding Media Cultures: Social Theory and Mass Communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995. (Textbooky, but serviceable.)

Stewart, Andrew. Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.

Tagg, John. The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories. Amerst: U of Massachusetts P, 1988. (Social-political orientation.)

Ticklner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.

Truesdell, Matthew. Spectacular Politics: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the Fête Impêriale, 1849-1870. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. (Political spectacles.)

Zanger, Abby E. Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1997.