| Visual Communication and Culture: Images in Action Contributor(s): Finn, Jonathan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195426622 ISBN-13: 9780195426625 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $138.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 302.2 |
| LCCN: 2012376684 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.8" W x 8.6" (1.55 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |