What Do Pictures Want? von Mitchell, W. J. T.

"Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge--issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in "Critical Inquiry"...

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. This title defines what this...

"On Narrative," herausgegeben von W. J. T. Mitchell, ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die sich mit der Theorie und Praxis des Erzählens auseinandersetzen. Das Buch untersucht, wie Narrative in verschiedenen Disziplinen wie Literatur,...

"[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read."—Rudolf...

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...

"Das Klonen und der Terror: Der Krieg der Bilder seit 9/11" von Michael Bischoff ist eine tiefgründige Analyse, die den Zusammenhang zwischen Technologie, Terrorismus und Medien in der modernen Gesellschaft untersucht. Das Buch...