The Handbook of Visual Analysis
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The Handbook of Visual Analysis

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Handbook of Visual Analysis

About this book

The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues.

The Handbook:

¡ Offers a wide-range of methods for visual analysis: content analysis, historical analysis, structuralist analysis, iconography, psychoanalysis, social semiotic analysis, film analysis and ethnomethodology

¡ 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.

¡ Includes examples from the authors? own research and professional practice.

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.

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Yes, you can access The Handbook of Visual Analysis by Theo Van Leeuwen, Carey Jewitt, Theo Van Leeuwen,Carey Jewitt in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
while 
creative 
processes 
are 
essential 
to 
discovery, 
artistic 
processes 
may 
produce
only 
ctitious 
statements 
if 
not 
combined 
with 
systematic 
and 
detailed 
analysis’ 
(p. 
59). 
In 
our 
opinion, 
this 
can 
be 
usefully 
applied 
to 
all 
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Chapter 1 - Introduction
  8. Chapter 2 - Content Analysis of Visual Images
  9. Chapter 3 - Approaches to Analysis in Visual Anthropology
  10. Chapter 4 - Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing the Visual
  11. Chapter 5 - Semioics and Iconography
  12. Chapter 6 - A Therapeutic Perspective: the Use of Drawings in Child Psychoanalysis and Social Science
  13. Chapter 7 - Visual Meaning: a Social Semiotic Approach
  14. Chapter 8 - Practices of Seeing Visual Analysis: an Ethnomethodological Approach
  15. Chapter 9 - Analysing Film and Television: a Social Semiotic Account of 'Hospital and Unhealthy Business'
  16. Index