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Journal of Visual Culture is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Visual Culture and Art Theory, Photography and Visual Culture, Cinema and Media Studies.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Visual Culture, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Visual Culture and Art Theory Photography and Visual Culture Cinema and Media Studies Art, Politics, and Modernism Digital Games and Media |
| ISSN | 1470-4129 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.33 |
| h-index | 45 |
| i10-index | 178 |
| Total citations | 9,226 |
| Top institutions publishing here | New York University |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com |
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This essay attempts to map out the main issues surrounding visual studies as an emergent academic formation, and as a theoretical concept or object of research and teaching. After a survey of some of the resistances encountered by visual studies in fields such as art history, aesthetics, and media studies, and a suggestion that visual…
‘Visual media’ is a colloquial expression used to designate things such as television, film, photography and painting, etc. But it is highly inexact and misleading. On closer inspection, all the so-called visual media turn out to involve the other senses (especially touch and hearing). All media are, from the standpoint of sensory modality, ‘mixed media’.…
The double question whether visual culture studies is a discipline or an interdisciplinary movement, and which methods are most suited to practice in this field, can only be addressed by way of the object. This article probes the difficulty of defining or delimiting the object of study without the reassuring and widespread visual essentialism that,…
Why does sound art remain so profoundly undertheorized, and why has it failed to generate a rich and compelling critical literature? It is because the prevailing theoretical models are inadequate to it. Developed to account for the textual and the visual, they fail to capture the nature of the sonic. In this article, the author…
This article probes the cultural meaning of contemporary meme genres that are based on photographs. The analysis looks into the broad dimensions of truth and temporality, as expressed in three prominent genres: reaction Photoshops, stock character macros, and photo fads. Based on patterns shared by these genres, it is argued that photo-based memes function as…
