Visual Communication and Culture

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - 'Recapitulation', William M. Ivins, Jr2 - 'The Visual Image: Its Place in Communication', E.H. Gombrich3 - 'In Plato's Cave', Susan Sontag4 - 'Blood and Circuses', Kate Cregan5 - 'A Cultural Anatomy of the Visible Human Project', Lisa Cartwright6 - 'Flesh in Wax: Demystifying the Skin Colours of the Common Crayon', Lorna Roth *7 - 'Professional Vision', Charles Goodwin8 - 'Visual Literacy in Action: "Law in the Age of Images"', Richard K. Sherwin9 - 'The Pleasures of Looking: The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography versus Visual Images', Carole S. Vance10 - 'The Suspicious and the Self-Promotional: About Those Photographs We Post on Facebook', Ira Wagman*11 - 'Deconstructing the Map', J.B. Harley12 - 'Mind the Gap: The London Underground Map and Users' Representations of Urban Space', Janet Vertesi13 - 'Powell's Point: Denial and Deception at the UN', Jonathan Finn14 - 'To Tell the Truth: Codes of Objectivity in Photojournalism', Dona Schwartz15 - 'Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press', Karin E. Becker16 - 'Miller's Crossing: War, Surrealism, and Vogue', Karen Engle*17 - 'The Modern Art Museum: It's a Man's World', Carol Duncan18 - '"Whiffs of Balsam, Pine, and Spruce": Art Museums and the Production of a Canadian Aesthetic', Anne Whitelaw19 - 'The Mask Stripped Bare by Its Curators: The Work of Hybridity in the Twenty-First Century', Ruth B. Phillips20 - 'Through a Canadian Lens: Discourses of Nationalism and Aboriginal Representation in Governmental Photographs', Carol Payne21 - 'Votes for Stoves: Everywoman's World and the Canadian Citizen/Consumer in the Early Twentieth Century', Anne-Marie Kinahan*22 - 'Meatballs Matters', Peter Urquhart*23 - 'Television in the Family Circle', Lynn Spigel24 - '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*

AUTORE

Jonathan Finn is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and a member of the editorial board of Wilfrid Laurier University Press. He is the author of Capturing the Criminal Image: From Mug Shot to Surveillance Society (Minnesota, 2009), as well as numerous essays on surveillance, visual communication, and visual culture. His primary area of research is the history and theory of photography, with specific interest in institutional uses of the medium. He is currently developing a new research project on visual communication technologies and sport.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780195426625
• Dimensioni: 228 x 16.1 x 178 mm Ø 600 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 140 photos; 2 figures; 1 table
• Pagine Arabe: 464