A Concise Companion to Visual Culture

Advisory editor: David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine

This series provides theoretically ambitious but accessible volumes devoted to the major fields and subfields within cultural studies, whether as single disciplines (film studies) inspired and reconfigured by interventionist cultural studies approaches, or from broad interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives (gender studies, race and ethnic studies, postcolonial studies). Each volume sets out to ground and orientate the student through a broad range of specially commissioned articles and also to provide the more experienced scholar and teacher with a convenient and comprehensive overview of the latest trends and critical directions. An overarching Companion to Cultural Studies will map the territory as a whole.

1 A Companion to Postcolonial StudiesEdited by Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray

2 A Companion to Cultural StudiesEdited by Toby Miller

3 A Companion to Racial and Ethnic StudiesEdited by David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos

4 A Companion to Media StudiesEdited by Angharad Valdivia

5 A Companion to Art TheoryEdited by Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde

6 A Companion to Film TheoryEdited by Toby Miller and Robert Stam

7 A Companion to Gender StudiesEdited by Philomena Essed, David Theo Goldberg, and Audrey Kobayashi

8 A Companion to Literature and FilmEdited by Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo

9 A Companion to Asian American StudiesEdited by Kent A. Ono

10 A Companion to African American StudiesEdited by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon

11 A Companion to Museum StudiesEdited by Sharon Macdonald

12 A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer StudiesEdited by George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry

13 A Companion to Latina/o StudiesEdited by Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo

14 A Concise Companion to American StudiesEdited by John Carlos Rowe

15 A Companion to Diaspora and TransnationalismEdited by Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani

16 A Companion to SportEdited by David L. Andrews and Ben Carrington

17 A Companion to Popular CultureEdited by Gary Burns

18 A Companion to the History of American BroadcastingEdited by Aniko Bodroghkozy

19 A Companion to Television, 2nd EditionEdited by Janet Wasko

20 A Concise Companion to Visual CultureEdited by A. Joan Saab, Aubrey Anable, and Catherine Zuromskis

Edited by

A. Joan Saab

Aubrey Anable

Catherine Zuromskis

This edition first published 2021

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data Names: Saab, A. Joan, editor. | Anable, Aubrey, editor. | Zuromskis, Catherine, 1971– editor. Title: A concise companion to visual culture / edited by A. Joan Saab, Aubrey Anable, Catherine Zuromskis. Description: First edition. | Hoboken : Wiley‐Blackwell, [2021] | Series: Wiley Blackwell companions to cultural studies | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020024720 (print) | LCCN 2020024721 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119415404 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119415442 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119415473 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Art and society. | Culture. | Visual perception. | Visual communication. | Popular culture. | Communication and culture. Classification: LCC N72.S6 C59235 2020 (print) | LCC N72.S6 (ebook) | DDC 701/.03–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020024720LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020024721

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For Douglas

This book would not be possible without the support, encouragements, cooperation, and patience of our colleagues, collaborators, friends, and family members. We wish to thank our many brilliant contributors, who confirmed our suspicions that visual studies is alive and well and as relevant as ever. For the beautiful image on the cover of this book, we thank Meggan Gould, whose work offers the perfect distillation of how historical, material, playful, and alluring technologies of vision can be. Janey Fisher made our index. Juliet Booker, Sophie Bradwell, Emily Corkhill, Catriona King, Jake Opie, Sarah Peters, Richard Samson, and Manuela Tecusan at Wiley Blackwell provided guidance over the long process of bringing this volume together.

We thank our institutions—the University of Rochester, Carleton University, and the Rochester Institute of Technology—for their ongoing support. Martin Collier and Lorna Maier in the Art and Art History Department at the University of Rochester helped facilitate our writing retreat in the summer of 2019, and funds from the Dean’s Office helped offset the cost of the index. And Cat’s colleagues in the School for Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology (most especially Therese Mulligan) made it possible for her to start a new book project and a new job at the same time and still feel on top of things.