Suggested Readings

            

Books on Visual Rhetoric and Communication

 

Anders, Peter. Envisioning Cyberspace: Designing 3D Electronic Spaces. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking. Berkeley: California UP, 1989.

Arnheim, Rudolf. The Power of the Centre. Berkeley: California UP, 1988.

Barry, Ann Marie Seward. Visual Intelligence: Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.

Barthes, Roland.  Image-Music-Text. London: Fontana, 1977

Card, Stuart, Ben Schneiderman and Jock MacKinlay. Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think. 1999. London: Fontana , 1977

Dondis, D. A. A Primer of Visual Literacy. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1973.

Handa, Carolyn. Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004.

Hill, Charles A:  Defining Visual Rhetoric

Hilligoss, Susan and Tharon Howard: Visual Communication

Kostelnick, Charles and David D. Roberts. Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators.  Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

Kress, Gunther and Theo van Leeuwen.  Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge, 2006.

Kress, Gunther. Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy. London: Routledge, 1997.

          Leeuwan, Theo and Carey Jewitt: Handbook of Visual Analysis

 

McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1994.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. London: Routledge, 1999.

Schriver, Karen. Dynamics in Document Design. New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Smith, Ken et al: Handbook of Visual Communication

Sobchack, Vivian. Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture. Los Angeles: U of California Press, 2004.

         White, Jan V. Graphic Design for the Electronic Age

 

Books on Gestalt theory

 

Behrens, Roy R.: Art, Design and Gestalt Theory

Ellis, Willis D., A Source Book of  Gestalt Psychology

King, D. Brett and Michael Wertheimer: Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory
Poggi, Stefano: Gestalt Psychology: Its Origins, Foundations and Influence

Richard Zakia  Perception and Imaging

 

Links on Gestalt theory

http://www.isopixel.net/recursos/gestalt.pdf#search=%22Gestalt%20principles%22

http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/gestaltprinciples/index.htm

http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV8Chang.pdf

http://psy.ed.asu.edu/~classics/Wertheimer/Forms/forms.htm

http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/vi6.html (illusions)

Books Semiotics

Barthes, Roland  Elements of Semiology

Chandler D.   Semiotics: The Basics

Eco, Umberto: Theory of Semiotics

Hodge,  Bob Social Semiotics

Peirce, Charles Sanders: Collected Writings

 

Links on semiotics

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem01.html

http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/semiomean/semio1.html

 

 

  1.1) Narrative Theory  2) Using Narrative Theory to Understand the Power of News Photographs

  2.Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing the Visual

  3.Content Analysis of Visual Images

  4. Analyzing Film and Television: a Social Semiotic Account of Hospital: an Unhealthy Business

   5. A Burkean Analysis of a Television Promotional Advertisement

  6.Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock's Vertigo