Studying Visual Communication / Sol Worth; Larry Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worth, Sol, Author.

Contributor:

Gross, Larry, Editor.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Audio-visual aids.

Anthropology.

Semiotics.

Visual communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The papers in this volume trace the development of Worth's thinking and research as he outlined the problems and issues that must be faced in the study of visual communication.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Sol Worth and the Study of Visual Communication

1. The Development of a Semiotic of Film

2. A Semiotic of Ethnographic Film

3. Toward an Anthropological Politics of Symbolic Forms

4. The Uses of Film in Education and Communication

5. Symbolic Strategies

6. Seeing Metaphor as Caricature

7. Pictures Can’t Say Ain’t

8. Margaret Mead and the Shift from “Visual Anthropology” to the “Anthropology of Visual Communication”

Appendix: An American Community's Socialization to Pictures: An Ethnography of Visual Communication (A Preproposal) (With Jay Ruby)

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512809282

1512809284

OCLC:

979911672