ABSTRACT This article explores how ‘Visual Culture Studies’ has emerged since the 1990s as a productively unstable cluster of research concerns and practices, extending beyond the sectorial bounds of traditional visually-oriented disciplines such as art history or architecture. The two areas of screen studies and photography are explored as case studies that demonstrate how Visual Cultures approaches have expanded research horizons and enhanced teaching and outreach practice in Italian Studies. The article highlights aspects of visual production that have been variously dominant or marginalised in Italian Studies to date and explores how the new, interdisciplinary field fosters interconnections and exchanges, opens up discussion of the complexity of cultural production and media, and is enriched by engagement with visual, textual, and media theory.

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意大利视觉文化

摘要本文探讨了自1990年代以来“视觉文化研究”如何作为研究关注和实践的生产性不稳定集群而出现，并超越了艺术史或建筑等传统以视觉为导向的学科的部门界限。案例研究探讨了屏幕研究和摄影这两个领域，这些案例展示了视觉文化方法如何拓宽了意大利研究领域的研究视野并增强了教学和推广实践。本文重点介绍了迄今为止在意大利研究中占主导地位或边缘化的视觉制作方面，并探讨了新的跨学科领域如何促进相互联系和交流，开启了对文化制作和媒体复杂性的讨论，并通过与视觉，文字和媒体理论。