Lecture-based Reading:
Montage: The Parallax View (Pakula 1974)
- Becker, H S (Ed.) (1981)
Exploring Society Photographically.
Chicago: Chicago University Press (not explictly semiotic but useful)
- Brown, Jared (2005)
Alan J Pakula: His Films and His Life. New York: Back Stage (not semiotic but useful background material)
- Chalfen, R (1987)
Snapshot Versions of Life. Bowling Green, OH:
Bowling Green State University Popular Press
- Chandler, Daniel (1994) 'The "Grammar" of Television and Film'
[WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/gramtv.html
- Chandler, Daniel (1994) 'Codes'. In 'Semiotics for Beginners' [WWW document]
URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem08.html
- Chandler, Daniel (1994) 'DIY Semiotic Analysis', in Semiotics for Beginners. [WWW document]
URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem12.html
- Chandler, Daniel (1994) 'Paradigms and Syntagms', in Semiotics for Beginners. [WWW document]
URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem03.html
- Chandler, Daniel (1994) 'Paradigmatic Analysis', in Semiotics for Beginners. [WWW document]
URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem04.html
- Chandler, Daniel (1994) 'Syntagmatic Analysis', in Semiotics for Beginners. [WWW document]
URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem05.html
- Chandler, Daniel (2001)
Semiotics: The Basics (1st Edition). London: Routledge, Chapter Three: 'Analysing Structures'
- Chandler, Daniel (2007)
Semiotics: The Basics (2nd Edition). London: Routledge, Chapter Three: 'Analysing Structures'
- Clarke, Graham (1997)
The Photograph. Oxford: Oxford University Press;
brief extract 'How Do We Read a Photograph?' [WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Modules/MC10220/reading_photos.html (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Elkins, James (1998)
On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Fairservice, Don (2001)
Film Editing: History, Theory and Practice. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, pp. 5-37 (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Fiske, John & John Hartley (1978)
Reading Television. London: Methuen
- Forceville, Charles (1998)
Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising. London: Routledge
- Goldberg, Vicki (1991)
The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives. New York: Abbeville Press (not explictly semiotic but useful)
- Gombrich, Ernst H, Julian Hochberg & Max Black (1972)
Art, Perception and Reality.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University 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
- Goodman, Nelson (1968)
Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols. London: Oxford University Press
- Hecker, Sidney & David W. Stewart (Eds) (1988)
Nonverbal Communication in Advertising. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books/D C Heath (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Hocks, Mary E. & Michelle R. Kendrick (Eds) (2003)
Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media. Cambridge, M: MIT Press (not explictly semiotic but useful)
- Messaris, Paul (1994)
Visual 'Literacy': Image, Mind, and Reality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press
- Messaris, Paul (1997)
Visual Persuasion: The Role of Images in Advertising. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
- Mitchell, W J T (1994)
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Newton, Julianne H (2001)
The Burden of Visual Truth: The Role of Photojournalism in Mediating Reality. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (not explictly semiotic but useful)
- Nichols, Bill (1981)
Ideology and the Image. Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press (Chapters 1 & 2)
- Rudisill, Richard (1982) 'On Reading Photographs',
Journal of American Culture 5(3): ???-???
- Sanders, Noel (1988) 'Angles on the Image'. In Gunther Kress (Ed.)
Communication and Culture. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales
University Press, pp. 131-56
- Sonesson, Göran (1993)
Pictorial Semiotics [WWW document] URL
http://www.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/sonesson/pict_sem_1.html
- Spence, Jo & Patricia Holland (Eds) (1991)
Family Snaps: The Meanings of Domestic Photography. London: Virago (not explictly semiotic but useful)
- Stam, Robert, Robert Burgoyne & Sandy Flitterman-Lewis (1992)
New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics. London: Routledge
- States, Bert O. (1988)
The Rhetoric of Dreams. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
- Stephens, Mitchell (1998)
The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word. New York: Oxford University Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Worth, Sol (1981a)
Studying Visual Communication. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Worth, Sol (1981b) 'Pictures Can't Say Ain't'
(from Studying Visual Communication) [WWW document] URL
http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/wava/worth/ssev.html;
emergency backup copy
- Worth, Sol (1981c): 'The Development of a Semiotic of Film'
(from Studying Visual Communication) [WWW document] URL
http://www.temple.edu/anthro/worth/sone.html