Makes available the essential information and critical assessment of major topics in Image Studies all in one place for the first time

Presents key concerns, histories, and methodologies central to contemporary Image Studies in a clear order and through distinguishable thematic units

Serves as an essential reference for every student in visual communication, media theory, visual culture, visual semiotics, art theory, film studies, and philosophy of the image

1. Introduction: Between the Creation and Disintegration of Images; Krešimir Purgar.- 2. The Concept of the Image in the Old and New Testaments; Michael Shaw.- 3. Mimesis and Simulacrum in Aristotle and Plato; Nickolas Pappas.- 4. Iconoclastic Disputes in Byzantium; Konstantinos Giakoumis.- 5. Perspective, Space and Camera Obscura in the Renaissance; Ian Verstegen.- 6. Immanuel Kant and the Emancipation of the Image; Mojca Kuplen.- 7. Formalism and Kunstwissenschaft: The "How" of the Image; Andrea Pinotti.- 8. Aby Warburg and the Foundations of Image Studies; Steffen Haug & Johannes von Müller.- 9. Early Interactions of Static and Moving Images; Mirela Ramljak Purgar.- 10. Iconoclasm and Creation of the Avant-Garde; Nadja Gnamuš.- 11. Planarity, Pictorial Space, and Abstraction; Jeffrey Strayer.- 12. The Postmodern Image; Luca Malavasi.- 13. Digital images and virtual worlds; Rebecca Haar.- 14. The Martian Image (On Earth); Ingrid Hoelzl and Remi Marie.- 15. Intentionality, Phantasy and Image Consciousness in Edmund Husserl; Claudio Rozzoni.- 16. Aura and Photography in Walter Benjamin; Diarmuid Costello.- 17. Image and the Illusion of Immanence in Jean-Paul Sartre; John Lechte.- 18. Trait, Identity, and the Gaze in Jacques Lacan; Andrei Gornykh.- 19. Symbolic Exchange and Simulation in Jean Baudrillard; Gary Genosko.- 20. Historicity of Observing and Vision in Jonathan Crary; ¿ukasz Zaremba.- 21. Visual Pleasure and the Male Gaze in Laura Mulvey; Patricia Stefanovic & Ana Grui¿.- 22. Reality, Fiction and Make-Believe in Kendall Walton; Emanuele Arielli.- 23. The Technical Image in Vilém Flusser; Dario Vuger.- 24. Im/pulse to See in Rosalind Krauss; Filip Lipi¿ski.- 25. The Power of and Response to Images in David Freedberg; Maxime Boidy.- 26. Ontological Dispute: What Is an Image?; Andrea Rabbito.- 27. Representation and the Scopic Regime of (Post)Cartesianism; Donal Moloney.- 28. The Iconic (In)Difference; Pietro Conte.- 29. Seeing-as, Seeing-in, Seeing-with: Looking Through Pictures; Emmanuel Alloa.- 30. Varieties of Transparency; John Kulvicki.- 31. Photographic Images in the Digital Era; Koray De¿irmenci.- 32. Images and Invisibility; Øyvind Vågnes.- 33. How to make images real; Wolfram Pichler.- 34. Images and Ethics; Asbjørn Grønstad.- 35. The Beholder's Freedom. Critical Remarks on the "Will to See"; Mark Halawa-Sarholz.- 36. Surveillance and Manipulation vs. Networking and Sharing; Elio Ugenti.- 37. Mobile images; Gaby David.- 38. Phenomenology of the Image; Harri Mäcklin.- 39. Visual Semiotics; Angela Mengoni.- 40. Literary Iconology: Tropes and Typologies; Liliane Louvel.- 41. French Theory: Poststructuralism and Deconstruction; Iris Laner.- 42. Anglo-American Theory: Representation and Visual Activism; Andrea Pr¿chová Hr¿zová.- 43. German Theory: Bildwissenschaft and theIconic Turn; Žarko Pai¿.- 44. The Image and Neuroaesthetics; Matthew Rampley.- 45. Visual Sociology; Carolina Cambre.- 46. Images and Architecture; Vlad Ionescu, Maarten Van Den Driessche, Louis De Mey.- 47. What is Design Theory?; Oliver Ruf.- 48. W. J. T. Mitchell; Krešimir Purgar.- 49. Michele Cometa; Valeria Cammarata.- 50. Paul Crowther; Elena Fell.- 51. Hans Belting; Luca Vargiu.- 52. Dieter Mersch; Marcel Finke.- 53. Klaus Sachs-Hombach; Lukas R. A. Wilde.- 54. Horst Bredekamp; Yannis Hadjinicolaou.- 55. Lambert Wiesing; Yvonne Förster.- 56. Gottfried Boehm; Rahel Vilinger.- 57. Georges Didi-Huberman; Andrzej Le¿niak.