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