The handbook of visual culture / edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell with Michael Gardiner, Gunalan Nadarajan and Catherine Soussloff.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The handbook embraces the extraordinary range of disciplines which now engage the study of the visual -- film and photography, television, fashion, visual arts, digital media, geography, philosophy, architecture, material culture, sociology, cultural studies and art history. Throughout, the Handbook is responsive to the cross-disciplinary nature of many of the key questions raised in visual culture around digitization, globalization, cyberculture, surveillance, spectacle, and the role of art.

Historical and theoretical perspectives -- Art and visuality -- Aesthetics, politics and visual culture -- Practices and institutions of visual culture -- Developments in the field of visual culture.