Visions of Modernity: Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera

Visions of Modernity explores the relationship between technology, society and identity that underpins contemporary 'media culture'. By tracing particular historical shifts as they have intersected with different camera technologies - photography, cinema, television - Scott Mc Quire engages with broad social and political transformations. Focusing on the camera, Mc Quire offers a useful point of entry for understanding the processes of modernization and the dramatic changes - perceptual, experiential and epistemological - that characterize modernity.

Visions of Modernity will be of interest to students of sociology, media and cultural studies, art history, geography and anthropology.