Writing the Image After Roland Barthes / / Jean-Michel Rabat�.

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• HerausgeberIn: Rabat�, Jean-Michel,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: New Cultural Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 30 illus.

In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, Jean-Michel Rabaté and nineteen contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media and popular culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Barthes's Discretion -- 2. "What has occurred only once" -- 3. The Filter of Culture and the Culture of Death -- 4. Barthes and Bazin -- 5. Roland Barthes's Obtuse, Sharp Meaning and the Responsibilities of Commentary -- 6. Photographeme -- 7. Narrative Liaisons -- 8. Circulating Images -- 9. Roland Barthes, or The Woman Without a Shadow -- 10. The Descent of Orpheus -- 11.The Imaginary Museum of Jules Michelet -- 12. Barthes with Marx -- 13. Beyond Metalanguage -- 14. Who Is the Real One? -- 15. The Art of Being Sparse, Porous, Scattered -- 16. Genetic Criticism in the Wake of Barthes -- 17. Roland Barthes Abroad -- 18. Un-Scriptible -- Conclusion: A False Account of Talking with Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes in Philadelphia -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index