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Mental Traveler A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia
ISBN: HB: 9780226695938, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 18 halftones
How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry?  W. J. T. Mitchell...
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Image Science Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226565842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the modern humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theory" and "What Do Pictures Want?", Mitchell's no...
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Occupy Three Inquiries in Disobedience
ISBN: PB: 9780226042749, ISBN: HB: 9780226042602, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
152 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones
"Mic check! Mic check!" Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take...
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£42,00
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Cloning Terror The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780226532608, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
240 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 38 halftones, 8 colour illus.
The phrase "War on Terror" has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, a...
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£21,00
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Critical Terms for Media Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226532554, ISBN: HB: 9780226532547, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 6 line illus.
Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive".Critical Terms for Media Studies" defines, and...
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£76,00
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Late Derrida
ISBN: PB: 9780226532578, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
200 pp., 23x15 cm
The rubric "The Late Derrida", with all puns and ambiguities cheerfully intended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vast outpouring of new writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. In this period Derrida publishe...
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What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images
ISBN: PB: 9780226532486, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 84 halftones, 10 line drawings
Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or e...
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Edward Said Continuing the Conversation
ISBN: PB: 9780226532035, ISBN: HB: 9780226532011, University of Chicago Press, April 2005
200 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation", Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left off following his death in the fall of 2003. The essays, imagining and recalling the cadences of...
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Landscape and Power Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226532059, University of Chicago Press, April 2002
383 pp., 23x15 cm, 90 halftones
The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of...
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Picture Theory Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
ISBN: PB: 9780226532325, University of Chicago Press, September 1995
462 pp., 23x15 cm, 79 halftones
What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in...
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