Using visual evidence /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Howells, Richard, Dr (Editor), Matson, Robert W. (Robert William), 1947- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Maidenhead, Berkshire ; New York : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Visual communication > Social aspects. Visual literacy. Visual learning. Art and society. Mass media criticism. Media literacy.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Richard Howells and Robert W. Matson
Painting as visual evidence: production, circulation, reception / David Morgan
Showing politics to the people: cartoons, comics and satirical prints / Nicholas Hiley
"Impressed by nature's hand": photography and authorship / Douglas R. Nickel
Actuality and affect in documentary photography / David Phillips
Interpreting vernacular photography: finding "me": a case study / Catherine Whalen
Newsreels: form and function / Luke McKernan
Documentaries: a gold mine historians should begin to exploit / Pierre Sorlin
More than just entertainment: the feature film and the historian / Michael Paris
The visual culture of television news / Cynthia Carter and Stuart Allan
"What planet are we on?" Television drama's relationships with social reality / Maire Messenger Davies
The privileged discourse: advertising as an interpretive key to the consumer culture / Jacqueline Botterill and Stephen Kline.