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Article: Fuery, Patrick and Kelli Fuery. Visual Cultures and Critical Theory.(Book Review)
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- Communication Research Trends
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- June 1, 2005
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Fuery, Patrick and Kelli Fuery. Visual Cultures and Critical Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. v, 137. ISBN 0-340-80748-2 (pb.) $27.50.
Visual Cultures and Critical Theory functions as something akin to a dicey Cliff Notes version of the radical French ideas that have held such sway in literary departments since the 1970s. The authors, Patrick and Kelli Fuery, cite the leading lights of post-structuralist thought: Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Derrida; and, arguably, several lesser lights, Julia Kristeva, and Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
The authors' premise is that spectator, image, and culture are ...