Explores how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television, and new media.

An up-to-date overview of the present state Visual Cultural Studies, featuring new original content, topics, and methods. Includes case studies, and contemporary issues emphasizing social, cultural, and generational perspectives. Note: This resource is made available by the CARLI Consortium through June 30, 2022.

An engaging introduction to visual and image studies. You will find chapters on drawing and painting, photography, visual culture, scientific imaging, and informational images.

How to think about what it means to look and see -- a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.

Provides a comprehensive and engaging overview of how we understand a wide array of visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to play, and to learn.

Reflects changes in the way society consumes and creates its visual content. New chapters dealing with social media platforms, interactive documentaries and digital story-telling are included.

Examines the importance of visual grammar and design literacy, audience, communication theory and semiotics.

The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans. Advances in visual technologies--daguerreotypes, lithographs, cartes de visite, and steam printing presses--enabled people to see and participate in social reform movements in new ways. African American activists seized these opportunities and produced images that advanced campaigns for black rights.

Offers a look at history's most famous images--to contextualize and make sense of today's visual world. Draws from art history, sociology, semiotics, and everyday experience,

How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present times, from the point of view of visual rhetoric.

Answers what visual culture is in everyday life in a global context through a series of writings.

A full range of writings from the young Marx and to the later works of both Marx and Engels.

The political tract in which Marx presented the core of his philosophy and revolutionary program, with an introduction analyzing its significance to the realities of today and to Marx's own times.

Writings by Barthes on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image.

Illustrates that every work of art is an expression of its culture (time and place) and its maker (the artist) and is dependent on its media (what it's made of).

A critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East.

Analyzes the visual representations of art history made by artists, critics, designers, theorists and poets alike, from the genealogical trees of the 12th through the 15th centuries and the Renaissance to more recent information graphics, including paintings, sketches, maps, plans, prints, drawings and diagrams.