This book delves into the complexities of visual representation and its impact on culture, consciousness, and politics. With a focus on movies like Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and Oliver Stone's "JFK," the author examines how images can provoke public debate or fuel political violence, making it an essential read for those interested in media and cultural studies. The book proposes a "picture theory" that offers a new perspective on the interplay between the visual and the readable, providing valuable insights into the unique power of images.

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What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.

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