This article discusses four sources of socio-cultural reference in visual communication
studies-art history, film studies, the psychology of art and visual representation, and the …

This chapter provides distinction between two different aspects of visual literacy: first,
familiarity with the formal conventions of visual media; second, familiarity with the cultural …

In the 1960s and 1970s, structuralism and semiotics dominated the study of visual
communication, especially the film medium. These almost intellectually faddish approaches …

Drawing upon theories from visual studies, critical visual culture studies, and cognitive
psychology, and with a special focus on gender and ethnicity, this book gives students a …

The study of visual communication is a multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional effort. People
who write on this topic come from mass communication (including photography, advertising …

Ina critical approach to the study ofv1sual communIcation. the challenge is to understand
how images he1p to forge and maintain the links between culture. soc! e~ and IndivIdu-als …

[Visual Cultures is the first study of the place of visuality and literacy in specific nations
around the world, featuring authoritative, insightful essays on the value accorded to the …

The Untitled Project1 is a result of my search for a way to explore issues of power and
control between large groups of people by focusing on the hegemony of mass …

Visual studies, I propose, is most productively conceived as media studies. While there are
excellent reasons for promoting visual studies as a problematic and as a field of study in its …

The concept of visual literacy appears to have originated in the notion that visual
communication depends on shared conventions which may be likened productively to the …