Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture

Practices of Looking, Canadian edition, is a comprehensive and engaging introduction to visual culture. Through the analysis of art, photographs, film, television, video games, advertisements, news images, the Internet, digital images, and images from science, this textbook explores the ways in which we use visual media to create meaning and construct identity and culture. In Practices of Looking, Canadian edition, the social, cultural, historical, and political differences between Canada and the United States are properly recognized and discussed. Susan Douglas seamlessly incorporates an in-depth discussion of the place of Canadian art, television, advertisements, and cultural figures, both classic and contemporary, within a US-dominated and increasingly international visual world.