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Images in use : towards the critical analysis of visual communication /

News coverage of EU negotiations, children's war memories or TV series glamourising political processes - images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as "images in use", this vo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stocchetti, Matteo, Kukkonen, Karin, 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2011.
Colección:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 44.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • pt. I Approaches to visual communication and the question of power
  • 1. Images: Who gets what, when and how? / Matteo Stocchetti
  • 2. The critical tradition in visual studies: An introduction / Juha Herkman
  • 3. The map, the mirror and the simulacrum: Visual communication and the question of power / Karin Kukkonen
  • 4. Disenchantment with politics and the salience of images / Ruth Wodak
  • pt. II Case studies: Visual communication in late modern society
  • 5.Organising political consensus: The visual management of diplomatic negotiations and community relations in the Finnish accession to the EU / Anne Koski
  • 6. Walls, doors and exciting encounters: Balkanism and its edges in Bulgarian political cartoons on European integration / Alina Curticapean
  • 7. The politics of visual representation: Security, the US and the ẁar on terrorism' / Helle Palu
  • 8. The politics of identity and visuality: The case of Finnish war children / Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen
  • 9. Visual politics and celebrity humanitarianism: How colonial culture is revitalised in the West / Riina Yrjola
  • 10. The economics of gay reality television: The visualisation of sexual difference in contemporary consumer culture / Katariina Makinen
  • 11. Mending endings: Power and closure in film plots / Gerda Dullaart
  • 12. Representing the state of exception: Power, Utopia, visuality and narrative in superhero comics / Mervi Miettinen.