num_pages: 304
description: This new edition of Gillian Rose’s 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 method’s 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).
language: English
title: Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials
titlecomplete: Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials
genres: Anthropology, Social Science, Grad School, Academic, Nonfiction, School, Art, Research, Journalism, Photography
ratings_count: 221
publisher: Sage Publications Ltd