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Studying visual communication

Title
Studying visual communication / Sol Worth ; edited, with an introduction by Larry Gross.
Author
Worth, Sol.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

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Additional Authors
Gross, Larry P., 1942-
Description
xii, 216 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Series Statement
University of Pennsylvania publications in conduct and communication
Uniform Title
University of Pennsylvania publications in conduct and communication.
Subject
  • Visual communication
  • Anthropology > Audio-visual aids
  • Semiotics
  • Bildbetrachtung
  • Semiotik
  • Motion pictures > Philosophy
  • Anthropology
  • Bildbetrachtung
  • Semiotik
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 204-209.
Contents
Sol Worth and the study of visual communication -- The development of a semiotic of film -- A semiotic of ethnographic film -- Toward an anthropological politics of symbolic forms -- The uses of film in education and communication -- Symbolic strategies / with Larry Gross -- Seeing metaphor as caricature -- Pictures can't say ain't -- Margaret Mead and the shift from "visual anthropology" to the "anthropology of visual communication" -- An American community's socialization to pictures : an ethnography of visual communication (a preproposal) / with Jay Ruby.
ISBN
  • 0812277910
  • 9780812277913
  • 0812211162
  • 9780812211160
LCCN
80052807
OCLC
  • ocm07276743
  • 7276743
  • SCSB-36188
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library