Visual "literacy"
Post-industrial humankind is inundated daily with visual images. Televisions transmit their blue haze into dark living rooms; advertisements and billboards bombard us at every turn; movies evoke tears, outrage, or hilarity; and the visual arts elicit strong emotional or intellectual responses. At al...
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| Glavni autor: | Messaris, Paul (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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Boulder :
Westview Press,
1994.
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- 1. Four aspects of visual literacy : Still images ; Film and television ; Cognitive consequences of visual literacy ; Awareness of artistry and visual manipulation ; 2. The interpretation of still images : Abstract representation ; Concrete representation ; empirical evidence ; 3. The interpretation of film and television : Point-of-view editing ; Editing as an indicator of thoughts and emotions ; The modulation of emphasis and viewer involvement ; Beyond pint-of-view editing ; Propositional editing ; 4. General dognitive consequences of visual literacy : Propositionality revisited ; Representational categories and world views ; Spatial intelligence ; From concrete to abstract to analogy ; 5. Awerteness of artistry and manipulation : The detection of artifice ; Unconcealed artifice ; Visual manipulation ; 6. Conclusion: Other questions, other "literacies" : Images and the appearance of reality ; Images and cultures ; Fammiliarity with visual subject matter ; "Production literacy".