Visual Communication and Culture

Jonathan Finn is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and a member of the editorial board of Wilfrid Laurier University Press. He is the author of Capturing the Criminal Image: From Mug Shot to Surveillance Society (Minnesota, 2009), as well as numerous essays on surveillance, visual communication, and visual culture. His primary area of research is the history and theory of photography, with specific interest in institutional uses of the medium. He is currently developing a new research project on visual communication technologies and sport.

TABLE OF CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ; INTRODUCTION AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING ; PART ONE: IMAGES, COMMUNICATION, AND CULTURE ; INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE ; 1. 'Recapitulation', William M. Ivins, Jr ; 2. 'The Visual Image: Its Place in Communication', E.H. Gombrich ; 3. 'In Plato's Cave', Susan Sontag ; QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING ; PART TWO: IMAGES OF THE BODY ; INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO ; 4. 'Blood and Circuses', Kate Cregan ; 5. 'A Cultural Anatomy of the Visible Human Project', Lisa Cartwright ; 6. 'Flesh in Wax: Demystifying the Skin Colours of the Common Crayon', Lorna Roth * ; QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING ; PART THREE: VISUAL EVIDENCE ; INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE ; 7. 'Professional Vision', Charles Goodwin ; 8. 'Visual Literacy in Action: "Law in the Age of Images"', Richard K. Sherwin ; 9. 'The Pleasures of Looking: The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography versus Visual Images', Carole S. Vance ; 10. 'The Suspicious and the Self-Promotional: About Those Photographs We Post on Facebook', Ira Wagman* ; QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING ; PART FOUR: MAPS, CHARTS, AND DIAGRAMS ; INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR ; 11. 'Deconstructing the Map', J.B. Harley ; 12. 'Mind the Gap: The London Underground Map and Users' Representations of Urban Space', Janet Vertesi ; 13. 'Powell's Point: Denial and Deception at the UN', Jonathan Finn ; QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING ; PART FIVE: IMAGES IN THE NEWS: PHOTOJOURNALISM ; INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE ; 14. 'To Tell the Truth: Codes of Objectivity in Photojournalism', Dona Schwartz ; 15. 'Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press', Karin E. Becker ; 16. 'Miller's Crossing: War, Surrealism, and Vogue', Karen Engle* ; QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING ; PART SIX: COLLECTING CULTURE: THE MUSEUM ; INTRODUCTION TO PART SIX ; 17. 'The Modern Art Museum: It's a Man's World', Carol Duncan ; 18. '"Whiffs of Balsam, Pine, and Spruce": Art Museums and the Production of a Canadian Aesthetic', Anne Whitelaw ; 19. 'The Mask Stripped Bare by Its Curators: The Work of Hybridity in the Twenty-First Century', Ruth B. Phillips ; QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING ; PART SEVEN: IMAGES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY ; INTRODUCTION TO PART SEVEN ; 20. 'Through a Canadian Lens: Discourses of Nationalism and Aboriginal Representation in Governmental Photographs', Carol Payne ; 21. 'Votes for Stoves: Everywoman's World and the Canadian Citizen/Consumer in the Early Twentieth Century', Anne-Marie Kinahan* ; 22. 'Meatballs Matters', Peter Urquhart* ; QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING ; PART EIGHT: IMAGES AND THEIR AUDIENCES ; INTRODUCTION TO PART EIGHT ; 23. 'Television in the Family Circle', Lynn Spigel ; 24. 'Virtually Live: Digital Broadcast Cinema and the Performing Arts', Paul Heyer* ; 25. 'From Counting Calories to Fun Food: Regulating the TV Diet in the Age of Obesity', Stephen Kline and Jacqueline Botterill* ; QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING ; REFERENCES