July 19, 1996

A Sampling of Books on Visual Culture

The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience, by Vivian Sobchack (Princeton University Press, 1992)

Art and the Committed Eye: The Cultural Functions of Imagery, by Richard Leppert (Westview Press, 1996)

Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education, by Barbara Maria Stafford (MIT Press, 1994)

Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film, by Miriam Hansen (Harvard University Press,