Books by Nicholas Mirzoeff

This sweeping comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, a field the author helped shape, casts modernity as a contest between visuality and countervisuality, or the right to look.

Examining the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the Internet, in print media and in cinema, this book looks at the endless stream of images from Iraq while recognizing the way in which the war turned images themselves into weapons.