03252nam 2200649 a 450 991045720210332120200520144314.01-283-31474-6978661331474190-272-8416-4(CKB)2550000000057562(EBL)786925(OCoLC)758009396(SSID)ssj0000537800(PQKBManifestationID)12216578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537800(PQKBWorkID)10557315(PQKB)10973553(MiAaPQ)EBC786925(Au-PeEL)EBL786925(CaPaEBR)ebr10505823(CaONFJC)MIL331474(EXLCZ)99255000000005756220110713d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrImages in use[electronic resource] towards the critical analysis of visual communication /edited by Matteo Stocchetti, Karin KukkonenAmsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.20111 online resource (304 p.)Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture (DAPSAC) ;v. 44Description based upon print version of record.90-272-0635-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Images in Use; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Part I. Approaches to visual communication and the question of power; 1. Images; 2. The critical tradition in visual studies; 3. The map, the mirror and the simulacrum; 4. Disenchantment with politics and the salience of images; Part II. Case studies; 5. Organising political consensus; 6. Walls, doors and exciting encounters; 7. The politics of visual representation; 8. The politics of identity and visuality; 9. Visual politics and celebrity humanitarianism; 10. The economics of gay reality television11. Mending endings 12. Representing the state of exception; IndexNews coverage of EU negotiations, children's war memories or TV series glamourising political processes - images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as "images in use", this volume considers the agencies behind visual communication and its impact on society. Images in Use engages critically with traditional approaches to visual analysis, offers suggestions for alternative, socially situated analyses of images and demonstrates the explanatory force of thinking through "imagDiscourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;v. 44.Visual communicationSigns and symbolsVisual sociologyElectronic books.Visual communication.Signs and symbols.Visual sociology.302.2/22Stocchetti Matteo276241Kukkonen Karin1980-869835MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457202103321Images in use1942130UNINA