The age of the image
Subtitle: redefining literacy in a world of screens
By: Stephen Apkon ; [foreword by Martin Scorsese]
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780374102432
Subjects: Visual literacy; Visual perception; Visual communication
Description: We live in a world awash in images. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing. and distribution are more akin to the development of movable type than any other such revolution in the last 500 years. And yet we are not popularly cognizant of or conversant with the grammar of visual communication, the coded messages of its style, and the practical components of its production. We are largely, in a word, illiterate. But this is not a gloomy diagnosis of the collapse of civilization; rather, it is a celebration of the progress we've made and a plan to seize its potential. Now is the time, Apkon argues, to transform the way we teach, create, and communicate so that we can all step forward together into a rich and stimulating future.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-258).
Table of contents: title: All the world's a screen; title: What is literacy?; title: The brain sees pictures first; title: The evolution of the audience; title: The big business of images; title: Grammar, rhythm, and rhyme in the age of the image; title: Teaching a new generation; title: The sharpening picture.