The Politics of the Superficial - Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display

Informationen zum Autor Brett Ommen is an independent scholar and writer. Klappentext Explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. Wide-ranging and stimulating, The Politics of the Superficial posits that contemporary visual culture offers the possibility for politically engaged communication and persuasion while simultaneously threatening the health of public discourse by atomizing its constituent parts. Zusammenfassung Explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. Wide-ranging and stimulating! The Politics of the Superficial posits that contemporary visual culture offers the possibility for politically engaged communication and persuasion while simultaneously threatening the health of public discourse by atomizing its constituent parts.

Product details

• Authors: Brett Ommen
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780817319182
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1918-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries