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    Visual communication and culture : images in action / edited by Jonathan Finn.

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    • Title:Visual communication and culture : images in action / edited by Jonathan Finn.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Finn, Jonathan, 1972-
    • Published/Created:Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, ©2012.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Communication and culture--Case studies.
      Visual communication--Social aspects--Case studies.
      Visual sociology.
    • Description:xix, 412 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm
    • Summary:This innovative new reader brings together twenty-five articles - both previously published and original contributions - to critically examine the production and interpretation of images across a variety of disciplines. Readings have been organized into eight thematic parts that function as case studies, using concrete examples to stress the real-world implications of images and visual communication. An accessible introduction to each section helps students develop visual literacy skills and prepare for the readings that follow, while coverage of 'images in action' throughout offers analysis of visual communication in different fields, including anatomy, law, cartography, museology, and photojournalism. Engaging and accessible, Visual Communication and Culture: Images in Action is essential reading for students interested in learning about the impact of images on society.-- Publisher description.
      Readership : Students taking an introductory-level visual communications or visual culture course at the second- or third-year level in college or university.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780195426625
      0195426622
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE IMAGES, COMMUNICATION, AND CULTURE
      1. Recapitulation / William M. Ivins, Jr.
      2. Vision in Education / Rudolph Arnheim
      3. In Plato's Cave / Susan Sontag
      Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
      pt. TWO IMAGES OF THE BODY
      4. Blood and Circuses / Kate Cregan
      5. 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
      pt. THREE Visual Evidence
      7. Professional Vision / Charles Goodwin
      8. Visual Literacy in Action: Law in the Age of Images / Richard K. Sherwin
      9. Pleasures of Looking: The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography versus Visual Images / Carole S. Vance
      10. Suspicious and the Self-Promotional: About Those Photographs We Post on Facebook / Ira Wagman
      Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading
      pt. FOUR MAPS, CHARTS, AND DIAGRAMS
      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
      pt. FIVE IMAGES IN THE NEWS: PHOTOJOURNALISM
      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
      pt. SIX COLLECTING CULTURE: THE MUSEUM
      17. MoMA's Hot Mamas / Carol Duncan
      18. `Whiffs of Balsam, Pine, and Spruce': Art Museums and the Production of a Canadian Aesthetic / Anne Whitelaw
      19. 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
      pt. SEVEN IMAGES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
      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
      pt. EIGHT IMAGES AND THEIR AUDIENCES
      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
      Questions for Reflection and Suggested Further Reading.
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