General Reading
For more specialised reading, see the suggested reading for particular
assignments.
- Anderson, Walter Truett (1990)
Reality Isn't What It Used to Be. New York: HarperCollins
- Barthes, Roland (1977)
Image, Music, Text. London: Fontana
(Two essays: 'The Photographic Message' and 'The Rhetoric of the Image')
- Berger, John (2013)
Understanding a Photograph. London: Penguin
- Bordwell, David (1989)
Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of
Cinema. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
- Branigan, Edward (1992)
Narrative Comprehension and Film. London: Routledge
- Chandler, Daniel (1994) Semiotics for Beginners. [WWW document]
URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/
- Chandler, Daniel (2007)
Semiotics: The Basics. London: Routledge
- *Chandler, Daniel and Rod Munday (2011)
Dictionary of Media and Communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Coren, Stanley, Lawrence M Ward & James T Enns (2003)
Sensation and Perception. New York: Harcourt Brace
- Deregowski, Jan B (1980)
Illusions, Patterns and Pictures: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.
London: Academic Press
- Gombrich, Ernst H (1977)
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. London: Phaidon
- Gombrich, Ernst H (1982)
The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. London: Phaidon
- Gregory, Richard L. (1970)
The Intelligent Eye. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Gregory, Richard L. (1990)
Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing.
Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Gregory, Richard L. & Ernst H. Gombrich (1998)
Illusion in Nature and Art. London: Duckworth
- Hoffman, Donald D (1998)
Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See. New York:
W W Norton
- Kress, Gunther & Theo van Leeuwen (2006)
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge
- Lester, Paul Martin (2002)
Visual Communication: Images with Messages. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
- Messaris, Paul (1994)
Visual Literacy: Image, Mind & Reality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press
- Nichols, Bill (1981)
Ideology and the Image. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
- Sturken, Marita & Lisa Cartwright (2001)
Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Oxford University Press
- Worth, Sol (1981)
Studying Visual Communication [WWW document] URL
http://www.academia.edu/2846340/Studying_visual_communication