Images in use : towards the critical analysis of visual communication / edited by Matteo Stocchetti, Karin Kukkonen.

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News coverage of EU negotiations, children's war memories or TV series glamourising political processes - images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as "images in use", this volume considers the agencies behind visual communication and its impact on society. Images in Use engages critically with traditional approaches to visual analysis, offers suggestions for alternative, socially situated analyses of images and demonstrates the explanatory force of thinking through "images in use" in

pt. I Approaches to visual communication and the question of power -- 1. Images: Who gets what, when and how? / Matteo Stocchetti -- 2. The critical tradition in visual studies: An introduction / Juha Herkman -- 3. The map, the mirror and the simulacrum: Visual communication and the question of power / Karin Kukkonen -- 4. Disenchantment with politics and the salience of images / Ruth Wodak -- pt. II Case studies: Visual communication in late modern society -- 5.Organising political consensus: The visual management of diplomatic negotiations and community relations in the Finnish accession to the EU / Anne Koski -- 6. Walls, doors and exciting encounters: Balkanism and its edges in Bulgarian political cartoons on European integration / Alina Curticapean -- 7. The politics of visual representation: Security, the US and the ẁar on terrorism' / Helle Palu -- 8. The politics of identity and visuality: The case of Finnish war children / Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen -- 9. Visual politics and celebrity humanitarianism: How colonial culture is revitalised in the West / Riina Yrjola -- 10. The economics of gay reality television: The visualisation of sexual difference in contemporary consumer culture / Katariina Makinen -- 11. Mending endings: Power and closure in film plots / Gerda Dullaart -- 12. Representing the state of exception: Power, Utopia, visuality and narrative in superhero comics / Mervi Miettinen.

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