Abstract
The essential difference between the study of images that takes images as the object and the study of images that takes images as the methodology lies in that the latter takes the formation and cultural context of images as its research focus. The image-as-methodology approach defines images as the collective cultural imagination about the Other, and this approach, by studying the images about the Other, examines the cultural dilemma behind the imagining Subject and searches for ways to resolve the deep contradictions in the Subject's self-identity, cultural value, and cultural strategy. This approach adopts three strategies by different ways of thinking: firstly, to read images by way of perceptual thinking; secondly, to examine the cultural dilemma behind the images by way of dialectical thinking; and thirdly, to look for ways to defuse the cultural dilemma by way of grand thinking. The image-as-methodology approach attempts an approach that is open while rooted in reality.
First Page
16
Last Page
22
Recommended Citation
Li, Yong. 2014. "Cultural Study by Taking Image as Methodology." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 34, (1): pp.16-22. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol34/iss1/6
