Welcome
“There is an unmistakable seriousness as well as a handsome hospitality in the range of method and morality, topic and topography on show.” Times Higher Education Supplement
“I have been reading your excellent journal…” Yingjin Zhang, Professor of Chinese Literature and Film, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, UCSD
“This is indeed a wonderful journal…” Jing Wang, Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Languages & Culture, MIT
“… an engaging, critical, dialogic, and rigorous journal…” Francesca Tarocco, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
The Journal of Visual Culture is a site for astute, informative, and dynamic thought on the histories and theories of vision, the visual, and visuality. It publishes challenging and provocative work from a range of methodological positions, on various historical moments, and across a range of diverse geographical locations, promoting research, scholarship, and engagement with visual cultures. It is essential reading for academics, researchers, and students engaged with the visual within the fields and disciplines of:
film, media and television studies · art, design, fashion and architecture history · visual studies culture · cultural studies and critical theory · gender studies and queer studies · ethnic studies and critical race studies · philosophy and aesthetics · photography, new media and electronic imaging · critical sociology · geography/urban studies · comparative literature and romance languages · the history and philosophy of science, technology and medicine
The Journal of Visual Culture, published three times a year by Sage, is an international refereed journal, indexed by the Institution for Scientific Information (ISI) and awarded an ‘A’ by the European Science Foundation’s European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Australian Research Council.
The Editors are part of the Network for Editors of Interdisciplinary Journals, and also work on the Visual Culture Studies in Europe project.
