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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:
Part One: Images, Communication, and Culture 1: William M. Ivins, Jr.: Recapitulation 2: Rudolph Arnheim: Vision in Education 3: Susan Sontag: In Plato's Cave Part Two: Images of the Body 4: Kate Cregan: Blood and Circuses 5: Lisa Cartwright: A Cultural Anatomy of the Visible Human Project 6: Lorna Roth *: Flesh in Wax: Demystifying the Skin Colours of the Common Crayon Part Three: Visual Evidence 7: Charles Goodwin: Professional Vision 8: Richard K. Sherwin: Visual Literacy in Action: Law in the Age of Images 9: Carole S. Vance: The Pleasures of Looking: The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography versus Visual Images 10: Ira Wagman*: The Suspicious and the Self-Promotional: About Those Photographs We Post on Facebook Part Four: Maps, Charts, and Diagrams 11: J.B. Harley: Deconstructing the Map 12: Janet Vertesi: Mind the Gap: The London Underground Map and Users' Representations of Urban Space 13: Jonathan Finn: Powell's Point: Denial and Deception at the UN Part Five: Images in the News: Photojournalism 14: Dona Schwartz: To Tell the Truth: Codes of Objectivity in Photojournalism 15: Karin E. Becker: Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press 16: Karen Engle*: Miller's Crossing: War, Surrealism, and Vogue Part Six: Collecting Culture: The Museum 17: Carol Duncan: The MoMA's Hot Mamas 18: Anne Whitelaw: 'Whiffs of Balsam, Pine, and Spruce': Art Museums and the Production of a Canadian Aesthetic 19: Ruth B. Phillips: The Mask Stripped Bare by Its Curators: The Work of Hybridity in the Twenty-First Century Part Seven: Images and National Identity 20: Carol Payne: Through a Canadian Lens: Discourses of Nationalism and Aboriginal Representation in Governmental Photographs 21: Anne-Marie Kinahan*: Votes for Stoves: Everywoman's World and the Canadian citizen-consumer in the early twentieth century 22: Peter Urquhart*: Meatballs Matters Part Eight: Images and Their Audiences 23: Lynn Spigel: Television in the Family Circle 24: Paul Heyer*: Virtually Live: Digital Broadcast Cinema and the Performing Arts 25: Jacqueline Botterill & Stephen Kline*: From Counting Calories to Fun Food: Regulating the TV Diet in the Age of Obesity References Index *Original article

About the Author :
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.

Review :
"This text fills a gap in textbooks on the topic of visual culture and communication. . .. A thoughtful and lively collection of relevant essays that are teachable, readable, and most importantly, engaging." --Dr. Michelle Meagher, University of Alberta


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195426625
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 464
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 600 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0195426622
  • Publisher Date: 08 Dec 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Images in Action
  • Width: 178 mm


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