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" Reading the visual / "
Tony Shirato & Jen Webb.
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BL
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986338
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b740708
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| Main Entry
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Schirato, Tony.
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| Title & Author
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Reading the visual /\ Tony Shirato Jen Webb.
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| Publication Statement
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Crows Nest, N.S.W. :: Allen & Unwin,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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Cultural studies
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vii, 213 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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1865087300 (pbk.)
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: 9781865087306 (pbk.)
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Tony Schirato is senior lecturer in the School of English, Film and Theatre at Victoria University, Wellington, N.Z.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Reading the visual; 2. Visual technologies; 3. Communication and the visual; 4. Visual narratives; 5. Visual art, visual culture; 6. Normalising vision; 7. Selling the visual; 8. The media as spectacle.
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| Abstract
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This book is a guide to the skills needed to analyse images of all kinds, and a lucid introduction to the emerging field of visual culture. From the body to the ever-present lens, the world is increasingly preoccupied with the visual. What exactly is 'the visual' and how can we interpret the multitude of images that bombard us every day? Reading the Visual takes as its starting point a tacit familiarity with the visual, and shows how we see even ordinary objects through the frameworks and filters of culture and personal experience. It explains how to analyse the mechanisms, conventions, contexts and uses of the visual in western cultures to make sense of visual objects of all kinds. Drawing on a range of theorists including John Berger, Foucault, Bourdieu and Crary, the authors outline our relationship to the visual, tracing changes-to literacies, genres and pleasures-affecting ways of seeing from the Enlightenment to the advent of virtual technology. Reading the Visual is an invaluable introduction to visual culture for readers across the humanities and social sciences.j.
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Literacy-- Philosophy.
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Popular culture.
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Visual literacy.
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Literacy-- Philosophy
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Popular culture.
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Visual literacy.
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| Dewey Classification
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371.335
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LB1068.S35 2004
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Webb, Jen.
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