Mapping Minds
Edited by Monika Raesch
Short Description
Mapping Minds features a select group of essays presented at the 4th Global Conference on Visual Literacies. Celebrating an interdisciplinary approach, this volume features work ranging, among others, from photography and video production studies to graffiti and film analysis with a variety of theoretical approaches.
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Key Words: Chorography, participatory photograph interview, teacher, mentor, mapping, national identity, Nellhouse Model, unsanctioned text, graffiti, photovoice, phenomenology, graphic novels, semiotics, creative block
Contents
Introduction
Monika Raesch
Part 1: Mapping Minds
The Contemporary Visual Literacy of Mapped Place: Chorographic Directions, Links and Analogies
Jill O’Sullivan
Understanding Migrant Visualisations of Family
John Watters
Therapeutic and Empowering Aspects of Visual Literacy Programs in Israeli High Schools
Jonathan M. Friesem
Building Opportunities for Learner-Centred Visual Literacy Development: A Technology Classroom Based Approach
Jane Pilling-Cormick & John Laverty
Student’s Concepts of Cinematic Literacy
Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar
Part 2: Developing Consumer Understanding of Texts
Beyond the Surface: Image Affordances in Language Textbooks that affect National Identity Formation (NIF)
Natasa Lackovic
Visualising Theatre: Scenography from Concept to Design to Realisation
Sofia Pantouvaki
Representations of Cyprus: Impressions of Gender and Culture during British Rule (1878-1959)
Maria Photiou
Reading Gestures and Reading Codes: The Visual Literacy of Graffiti as both Physical/Performative Act and Digital Information Text
Tracey Bowen
Views from the Water’s Edge: The Impact of Images in Communicating Perspectives of Climate Change
Lisa Chandler & Claudia Baldwin
A Reaffirmation of the Embodied Experience of the Visual
Kerrie McCaw
Part 3: Critical Analysis of Media Texts and their Creation
Blurring the Boundaries: Creating New Genres?
Beverley Croker
Visual Pathography: Graphic Representations of Illness in David B.’s Epileptic
Evita Lykou
Form and Meaning: Non-Objectivity and Communication
Robert L. Craig
Predication in Actu and in Potentia: Probing into its Aesthetics
Flutur Troshani
Images of the Excluded: Ideology, Interpretation and Context
Jill Fernie-Clarke
Skin Deep: Visual Representations of White/British Identity and Black/Foreign Identity in Commercially Successful Popular British Cinema
Sheila F.T. Sandapen
Towards an Understanding of Creative Block
Josephine Telfer
About the Editor:
Monika Raesch, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at Suffolk University in Boston, USA, where she teaches classes in film studies and in video production.
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