{"product_id":"visions-of-modernity-1","title":"Visions of Modernity","description":"This overview of modern visual culture explores the relationship between technology, society and identity which underpins contemporary `media culture′. While tracing historical shifts as they have developed through, or intersected with, different camera technologies, the book is not so much about the camera′s field of vision: it is concerned with processes of modernization and the dramatic changes - perceptual, experiential, epistemological - which characterize modernity.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing the camera and its technologies as symbols of\u003cb\u003e `\u003c\/b\u003erealism′, Scott McQuire interweaves: the history of visual culture from Lumiere to virtual reality by way of photography, cinema and television; the broad social and political transformations of the last 150 years; the ambivalent relationship between `image′ and `reality′; and the changing relationships of time and space, particularly related to colonialism, globalization, the modern city and cyberspace available in every home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54246681903448,"sku":"9780761953012","price":82.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780761953012.jpg?v=1777785364","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/visions-of-modernity-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}