Description |
xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
1. Introduction / Theo Van Leeuwen, Carey Jewitt -- 2. Content analysis of visual images / Philip Bell -- 3. Approaches to analysis in visual anthropology / Malcolm Collier -- 4. Seeing beyond belief: cultural studies as an approach to analyzing the visual / Martin Lister, Liz Wells -- 5. Semiotics and iconography / Theo van Leeuwen -- 6. A therapeutic perspective: the use of drawings in child psychoanalysis and social science / Gertraud Diem-Wille -- 7. Visual meaning: a social semiotic approach / Carey Jewitt, Rumiko Oyama -- 8. Practices of seeing, visual analysis: an ethnomethodological approach / Charles Goodwin -- 9. Analyzing film and television: a social semiotic account of 'Hospital: an unhealthy business' / Rick Iedema |
Summary |
Publisher's description: The Handbook of Visual Analysis, which demonstrates the importance of visual data within the social sciences, offers an essential guide to those working in a range of disciplines including: media and communication studies, sociology, anthropology, education, psychoanalysis, and health studies." "It offers a wide range of methods for visual analysis - content analysis, historical analysis, structuralist analysis, iconography, psychoanalysis, social semiotic analysis, film analysis and ethnomethodology - and shows how each method can be applied for the purposes of specific research projects; exemplifies each approach through detailed analyses of a variety of data, including newspaper images, family photos, drawings, art works and cartoons; and includes examples from the authors' own research and professional practice |
Notes |
Reprinted 2014 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Also available online |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Art and society.
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Visual communication -- Research.
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Visual communication.
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Author |
Van Leeuwen, Theo, 1947- author
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Jewitt, Carey, author
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LC no. |
2001273642 |
ISBN |
9780761964766 (hardback) |
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9780761964773 (paperback) |
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0761964762 (hardback) |
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0761964770 (paperback) |
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