Through the study of exemplary media works and practices - photography, film, video, performance, installations, web cams - scholars from various disciplines ca

This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of re

Highly innovative and long overdue, this study analyzes the visual culture of addiction produced in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The book examine

Directing unprecedented attention to how the idea of ?excess? has been used by both producers and consumers of visual and material culture, this collection exam

Although the idea of excess has often been used to degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-f