Sol Worth

Studying Visual Communication

Herausgegeben:Gross, Larry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Reprint 2016 edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 1981
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780812277913
• ISBN-10: 0812277910
• Artikelnr.: 45122156

Autorenporträt

Larry Gross is Director of the Annenberg School of Communication at University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Sol Worth and the Study of Visual Communication
One: The Development of a Semiotic of Film
Two: A Semiotic of Ethnographic Film
Three: Toward an Anthropological Politics of Symbolic Forms
Four: The Uses of Film in Education and Communication
Five: Symbolic Strategies (with Larry Gross)
Six: Seeing Metaphor as Caricature
Seven: Pictures Can't Say Ain't
Eight: Margaret Mead and the Shift from "Visual Anthropology" to the
"Anthropology of Visual Communication"
Appendix: An American Community's Socialization to Pictures: an
Ethnographyof Visual Communication (a Preproposal with Jay Ruby)
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"Worth had courage and originality enough not to take pictures for granted, but thought and struggled with some of the most difficult problems that cinematographers (and researchers in visual media) are faced with."--Edward T. Hall "This collection presents enduring. . . insights that are still in the vanguard of communication theories."--Library Journal