Rose, Gillian.

Visual methodologies : an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials / Gillian Rose. - 2nd ed. - London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007. - xvi, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-278) and index.

Researching visual materials: towards a critical visual methodology -- How to use this book -- \'The good eye\': looking at pictures using compositional interpretation -- Content analysis: counting what you (think you) see -- Semiology: laying bare the prejudices beneath the smooth surface of the beautiful -- Psychoanalysis: visual culture, visual pleasure, visual disruption -- Discourse analysis I: text, intertextuality, context -- Discourse analysis II: institutions and ways of seeing -- Audience studies: studying how television gets watched -- An anthropological approach: directly observing the social life of visual objects -- Making photographs as part of a research project: photo-elicitation, photo-documentation and other uses of photos -- Visual methodologies: a review.

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Visual communication.
Visual literacy.
Popular culture.
Audience studies--Television
Visual research
Visual Methodologies

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