Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 600 g
Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 600 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-542662-5
Verlag: OUP Canada
A reader for undergraduate students enrolled in second- or third-year visual culture or visual communications courses offered via communication studies and cultural studies departments in universities and colleges nation-wide.
Visual Communication and Culture: Images in Action uses a unique case-study approach to encourage students to critically examine the production and interpretation of images in their personal lives and across a variety of disciplines. Including eighteen selections from existing Canadian, UK, and US works across various disciplines, as well as an additional seven articles written specifically for this text, the twenty-four articles in this collection each emphasize that images are cultural productions. In addition, this volume includes nine easy-to-understand introductions to assist students in becoming visually literate consumers of images, with an understanding of how culture influences practices of visual communication and vice versa.
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- Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Introduction and Suggested Further Reading
- Part One: Images, Communication, and Culture
- Introduction to Part One
- 1: 'Recapitulation', William M. Ivins, Jr
- 2: 'The Visual Image: Its Place in Communication', E.H. Gombrich
- 3: 'In Plato's Cave', Susan Sontag
- Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
- Part Two: Images of the Body
- Introduction to Part Two
- 4: 'Blood and Circuses', Kate Cregan
- 5: 'A Cultural Anatomy of the Visible Human Project', Lisa Cartwright
- 6: 'Flesh in Wax: Demystifying the Skin Colours of the Common Crayon', Lorna Roth *
- Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
- Part Three: Visual Evidence
- Introduction to Part Three
- 7: 'Professional Vision', Charles Goodwin
- 8: 'Visual Literacy in Action: "Law in the Age of Images"', Richard K. Sherwin
- 9: 'The Pleasures of Looking: The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography versus Visual Images', Carole S. Vance
- 10: 'The Suspicious and the Self-Promotional: About Those Photographs We Post on Facebook', Ira Wagman*
- Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
- Part Four: Maps, Charts, and Diagrams
- Introduction to Part Four
- 11: 'Deconstructing the Map', J.B. Harley
- 12: 'Mind the Gap: The London Underground Map and Users' Representations of Urban Space', Janet Vertesi
- 13: 'Powell's Point: Denial and Deception at the UN', Jonathan Finn
- Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
- Part Five: Images in the News: Photojournalism
- Introduction to Part Five
- 14: 'To Tell the Truth: Codes of Objectivity in Photojournalism', Dona Schwartz
- 15: 'Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press', Karin E. Becker
- 16: 'Miller's Crossing: War, Surrealism, and Vogue', Karen Engle*
- Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
- Part Six: Collecting Culture: The Museum
- Introduction to Part Six
- 17: 'The Modern Art Museum: It's a Man's World', Carol Duncan
- 18: '"Whiffs of Balsam, Pine, and Spruce": Art Museums and the Production of a Canadian Aesthetic', Anne Whitelaw
- 19: 'The Mask Stripped Bare by Its Curators: The Work of Hybridity in the Twenty-First Century', Ruth B. Phillips
- Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
- Part Seven: Images and National Identity
- Introduction to Part Seven
- 20: 'Through a Canadian Lens: Discourses of Nationalism and Aboriginal Representation in Governmental Photographs', Carol Payne
- 21: 'Votes for Stoves: Everywoman's World and the Canadian Citizen/Consumer in the Early Twentieth Century', Anne-Marie Kinahan*
- 22: 'Meatballs Matters', Peter Urquhart*
- Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
- Part Eight: Images and Their Audiences
- Introduction to Part Eight
- 23: 'Television in the Family Circle', Lynn Spigel
- 24: 'Virtually Live: Digital Broadcast Cinema and the Performing Arts', Paul Heyer*
- 25: 'From Counting Calories to Fun Food: Regulating the TV Diet in the Age of Obesity', Stephen Kline and Jacqueline Botterill*
- Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
- References
