Using visual evidence / edited by Richard Howells and Robert W. Matson. - Maidenhead, Berkshire ; New York : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2009. - xiv, 201 p. : ill ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Painting as visual evidence: production, circulation, reception / Showing politics to the people: cartoons, comics and satirical prints / "Impressed by nature's hand": photography and authorship / Actuality and affect in documentary photography / Interpreting vernacular photography: finding "me": a case study / Newsreels: form and function / Documentaries: a gold mine historians should begin to exploit / More than just entertainment: the feature film and the historian / The visual culture of television news / "What planet are we on?" Television drama's relationships with social reality / The privileged discourse: advertising as an interpretive key to the consumer culture / Richard Howells and Robert W. Matson -- David Morgan -- Nicholas Hiley -- Douglas R. Nickel -- David Phillips -- Catherine Whalen -- Luke McKernan -- Pierre Sorlin -- Michael Paris -- Cynthia Carter and Stuart Allan -- Maire Messenger Davies -- Jacqueline Botterill and Stephen Kline.

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Visual communication--Social aspects.
Visual literacy.
Visual learning.
Art and society.
Mass media criticism.
Media literacy.

TK 7882 / .H59 2009