| Description |
1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Copyright Key -- Using this book -- Introduction -- Picture power -- People power -- 1 What is Visual Culture? -- Defining visual culture -- Visual culture today -- Why is visual culture important? -- Pictures and reality -- Questions -- Activities -- 2 Representation -- How pictures represent -- What is represented -- What is not represented -- Idealized representation -- False representation -- A final note -- Questions -- Activities -- 3 Visual Rhetoric -- Pictures argue |
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Defining rhetoric -- Fine art as rhetoric -- An aesthetics of emotion versus a rhetoric of emotion -- Reimagining the history of art as an aesthetics of emotion -- The elements of rhetoric -- Summary -- Questions -- Activities -- 4 The Pleasures of Aesthetic Seduction -- Aesthetics defined -- A pluralist view of aesthetics -- Seductive pleasures -- The many pleasures of pictures -- Questions -- Activities -- 5 Some Problems of Pleasure -- Everyday pleasures and their problems -- Summary and implications -- Questions -- Activities -- 6 Gazing and Glancing -- The concept of the spectator's gaze |
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Among the many ways to look -- The picture, people and place dynamic -- The pleasures of the gaze -- The power of the gaze -- An ethical agenda -- Reflexivity and responsibility -- Questions -- Activities -- 7 Intertextuality -- What is a text? -- What is intertextuality? -- Social semiotics -- Intertextuality and rhizomic structures -- Collective cognition and distributed creativity -- Online youth culture as smart swarms -- Summary and implications -- Questions -- Activities -- 8 Picture Appraisal -- What is appraisal? -- A linear sequence -- The Visual Culture Appraisal Compass -- Summary |
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9 Postmodern Curriculum 1: Intertextual Connections -- Recapping intertextuality -- An intertextual, rhizomic curriculum conceptualized -- Addressing teacher anxiety -- A curriculum journey -- Summary -- Questions -- Activities -- 10 Postmodern Curriculum 2: Movie Making -- The dominance of visual narratives -- Collective creativity -- Stupid swarms -- Enter education -- Movie making in the classroom -- Operating online -- Finally -- Questions -- Activities -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Visual learning.
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Visual learning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1350144614 |
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9781350144620 |
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1350144622 |
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9781350144613 |
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