Suggested Readings
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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 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
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