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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454873403321

Autore

Forrester Michael A

Titolo

Psychology of the image [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Forrester

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge

Philadelphia, PA, : Taylor & Francis, 2000

ISBN

1-280-31863-5

0-203-44692-5

0-203-27155-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

153.32

Soggetti

Imagery (Psychology)

Imagination

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Psychology of the Image; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Outlining a psychology of the image; Theme I Images of what is 'inside' or internal; 2 Seeing, visualising and mental imagery; 3 Sound imagery; 4 Dream images and conceptions of the unconscious; Theme II Interdependent images: inside and out, or outside and in?; 5 The developing self; 6 Self-image and social identity; 7 The gendered image; Theme III External images and all that is 'out there'; 8 The mass media of the moving image: television and film; 9 Virtual semiotics and electronic images

10 Photography and the photographic image11 Postscript to a psychology of the image; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Psychology of the Image outlines a theoretical framework bringing together the semiotic concepts developed by Charles Peirce, the sociological insights of Ervin Goffman and the psychoanalytic ideas of Jacques Lacan. Image studies in fashion, advertising, photography, film studies and psychology have been influenced by these theorists in significant ways. The framework presented helps the reader understand how these ideas relate to the study of different domains of the image: the internal imagery of dreams, external images such as the



photograph and image processes which span both contex