Using visual evidence / edited by Richard Howells and Robert W. Matson.
"Visual evidence encompasses a diverse range of media, from painting, cartoons and photography, to film, television and documentary. The central argument of this book is that visual evidence is a key to understanding both history and the present day and should not be relegated to a supporting r...
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Maidenhead, Berks. :
Open University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Richard Howells & Robert W. Matson
- 1. Painting As Visual Evidence / David Morgan
- 2. Showing Politics to the People: Cartoons, Comics and Satirical Prints / Nicholas Hiley
- 3. Impressed by Nature's Hand : Photography and Authorship / Douglas R. Nickel
- 4. Actuality and Affect in Documentary Photography / David Phillips
- 5. Interpreting Vernacular Photography, Finding 'Me': A Case Study / Catherine Whalen
- 6. Newsreels: Form and Function / Luke McKernan
- 7. Documentaries: A Gold Mine Historians Should Begin to Exploit / Pierre Sorlin
- 8. More than Just Entertainment: The Feature Film and the Historian / Michael Paris
- 9. The Visual Culture of Television News Cynthia Carter / Stuart Allan
- 10. What Planet Are We On? Television Drama's Relationships With Social Reality / Maire Messenger Davies
- 11. The Privileged Discourse: Advertising as an Interpretive Key to the Consumer Culture / Jacqueline Botterill & Stephen Kline.