Reading Images

Roland Barthes (1915-80) was an influential French literary critic and semiotician. From 1976 he was Professor of Semiology at the College de France Jean Baudrillard is best known as a theorist of the postmodern Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was born in Berlin and greatly influenced by Marxism Norman Bryson is a professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University Rosalind Coward is a Senior Research Fellow at Nene College, Northampton Jacques Derrida is the French philosopher who formulated deconstruction Michel Foucault (1926-84) was a French philosopher and historian of ideas, who taught at the College de France Richard L. Gregory is a professor in the Department of Psychology, Bristol University Bell Hooks teaches at City College, New York, where she is Distinguished Professor of English Julia Kristeva is a practising psychoanalyst and teaches at the University of Paris VII Jacques Lacan (1901-81) was a French psychoanalyst Teresa de Lauretis is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz Kobena Mercer is Visiting Professor on the African Studies Program at New York University Susan Sontag is a well-known American novelist, essayist and playwright Jackie Stacey teaches sociology and contributes to the MA in Visual Culture at the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University Julia Thomas is a lecturer at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University Slavoj Zizek is a Researcher in the Institute of Sociology at the University of LjubljanaThomas, Julia is the author of 'Reading Images' with ISBN 9780333765395 and ISBN 0333765397.