Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials

This new edition of Gillian Roses bestselling Visual Methodologies text has been comprehensively revised and updated.ThisSecond Editionprovides 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).