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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966912403321

Titolo

Beyond Textual Literacy: Visual Literacy for Creative and Critical Inquiry / / Edited by Mary A. Drinkwater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2011

ISBN

1-84888-007-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

At the Interface

Disciplina

370.15/23

Soggetti

Visual literacy

Visual perception

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Cover""; ""Inside Cover""; ""Advisory Board""; ""ISBN""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: Places, Persons and Processes""; ""Children's Responses to Visual Images: Preferences, Functions and Origins""; ""Regarding Preservation of Nuance: Visual Literacy in the Perception of the Human Body""; ""Reading the Visual: Language, Body & Space""; ""Pictures and Graphics: The Perception of Architecture""; ""PART II: Across Visual Lines""; ""Reading the Contemporary Picturebook: Negotiating Change""; ""The Paratextual and Precursory Voices of Twilight""

""Thinking and Talking to Alice: An Antipodean Adventure""""PART III:  Outsider and Insider Visions""; ""The Inner Eye and the Outer Space: Planetaria as Schools for Visual Literacy""; ""Critical Democratic Pedagogy through the Arts: Within a Culture of Democracy in Ontario Secondary Schools""; ""PART IV: Places of Seeing and Being""; ""Architectural Analysis Portfolio: Drawn Knowledge, a Case Study in Embodied Learning""; ""PART V: Creating Culture and Consciousness""; ""'This looks like a hat;  I don't know what it is': Investigating Pictorial Literacy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa""

""ABC Milwaukee: The Visual Culture Literacies of Growing up Urban""""The Visual and Social Semiotics of Toilet Signs in Greece""; ""PART VI: Seeing Across Even More Divides""; ""How the Gossip Industry Enjoys Visual Literacy""; ""Chorography: Reflections on Its Place in Visual



Literacy and Creative Arts""; ""PART VII:  Defining, Refining and Realigning""; ""The Interplay of Visual Literacy, New Media Technology and Teaching Approaches""; ""PART VIII: Discourse, Definition and Delights""; ""Celluloid Obsessions: Visual Literacy in the Films of Martin Scorsese""

""The Comfort of Standing Next to Walls: Reading the Ill-Literacies in Unica Zurn's Texts and Images""""Screening Subjectivity: A Narrative Analysis of Learning Visual Literacies""; ""PART IX: Icons, Inquiry and Intersections""; ""A Plain Language Guide to Multimodal Literacy""; ""Visualising Inquiry""; ""PART X: Choosing and Chasing a New View""; ""Gender and Critical Visual Literacy: Media Monitoring Projects and the Case of Turkey""; ""PART XI: Places of Being and Seeing""; ""Moral Education in Visual Literacy""

""Comics in Education: Advocating Visual Literacy, Reinforcing Intercultural Discourse""""PART XII: Reading Frames and Fractures""; ""Visual Literacy in Film: Teaching First-Year Undergraduates How to Read Film using In-Class andWeb-Based Materials""; ""Reading between the Lines: Visual Literacy and Film""; ""Screen Literacy: Its Social, Cultural and Educational Implications and Applications""; ""Back Cover""

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains chapters derived from papers presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues held in Oxford, UK, July 14th through the 16th, 2009. The conference brought together a broad range of cultural, artistic and academic participants.