... entered a realm of iconicity that detaches the image from corporeality and lived experience, and yet his death rendered iconicity unfixed and unstable. For much of Jackson's career, he strategically utilized visual media to manufacture and circulate his own image as one of the most inaccessible...

...This chapter sets out some critical modes of spectatorship generated by conventions of disability portrayal in film. It aims to identify some significant viewing relationships commonly cultivated in mainstream film. Visual media analysis in disability studies has made some initial efforts...

... of the city's fragmented landscape. These visual media offer the most observable evidence of the widely shared fascination with capturing the “lived” city and everyday spatiality, oral speech, and the language that was intrinsic to poetic space. However, film, photography, and television did not simply reflect...

... 1940s through the end of the 1950s, however, Paris was the terrain of poetic humanism. By focusing on humanism as a counterdiscourse, this book has turned away from notions of urban planning as feeble or defeated. Instead, it has demonstrated a rich public sphere, made even more dramatic by visual media...

... Americans are personally culpable for pollution and other environmental problems. The visual media have thus offered environmentalists a double-edged sword: Images have helped them popularize their cause, but also distorted their ideas by portraying their movement as a moralistic crusade to absolve...