Visual Communication and Culture
Images in Action
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 8 December 2011
- ISBN 9780195426625
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 228x178x16 mm
- Weight 600 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 140 photos; 2 figures; 1 table 0
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Short description:
Visual Communication and Culture: Images in Action uses a unique case-study approach to encourage undergraduate students at the second- and third-year level to critically examine the production and interpretation of images in their personal lives and across a range of disciplines and perspectives. Accompanied by nine student-friendly introductions, the twenty-five articles in this collection assist students in becoming visually literate consumers of images, with an understanding of how culture influences practices of image-making and vice versa.
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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.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction and Suggested Further Reading
Part One: Images, Communication, and Culture
Introduction to Part One
'Recapitulation', William M. Ivins, Jr
'The Visual Image: Its Place in Communication', E.H. Gombrich
'In Plato's Cave', Susan Sontag
Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
Part Two: Images of the Body
Introduction to Part Two
'Blood and Circuses', Kate Cregan
'A Cultural Anatomy of the Visible Human Project', Lisa Cartwright
'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
'Professional Vision', Charles Goodwin
'Visual Literacy in Action: "Law in the Age of Images"', Richard K. Sherwin
'The Pleasures of Looking: The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography versus Visual Images', Carole S. Vance
'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
'Deconstructing the Map', J.B. Harley
'Mind the Gap: The London Underground Map and Users' Representations of Urban Space', Janet Vertesi
'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
'To Tell the Truth: Codes of Objectivity in Photojournalism', Dona Schwartz
'Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press', Karin E. Becker
'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
'The Modern Art Museum: It's a Man's World', Carol Duncan
'"Whiffs of Balsam, Pine, and Spruce": Art Museums and the Production of a Canadian Aesthetic', Anne Whitelaw
'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
'Through a Canadian Lens: Discourses of Nationalism and Aboriginal Representation in Governmental Photographs', Carol Payne
'Votes for Stoves: Everywoman's World and the Canadian Citizen/Consumer in the Early Twentieth Century', Anne-Marie Kinahan*
'Meatballs Matters', Peter Urquhart*
Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
Part Eight: Images and Their Audiences
Introduction to Part Eight
'Television in the Family Circle', Lynn Spigel
'Virtually Live: Digital Broadcast Cinema and the Performing Arts', Paul Heyer*
'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
