Reading images

Essays by: Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Norman Bryson, Rosalind Coward, Teresa de Lauretis, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard L. Gregory, bell hooks, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Kobena Mercer, Susan Sontag, Jackie Stacey, Slavoj Zizek Is seeng just a matter of nature? Does perspective show things as they really are? Can we read an image in the same way as a text? This book draws together essays that attempt to answer these questions but in a variety of ways and from the different theoretical positions offered by psychoanalysis, semiotics, poststructuralism and postmodernism.