Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials

About this book

This new edition of Gillian Roses bestselling Visual Methodologies text has been comprehensively revised and updated. This Second Edition provides a critical introduction to the study and interpretation of visual culture. An introductory chapter contextualizes the theoretical approach to working with visual materials. Subsequent chapters each examine a visual method in detail and assess the methods strengths and weaknesses. The methods discussed in the new edition are: compositional interpretation content analysis semiology psychoanalysis discourse analysis audience studies (new) an anthropological approach to understanding visual materials (new) and on making images as part of social science research (new).