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<strong>Semiotics</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Beginners</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Daniel</strong> <strong>Chandler</strong><br />

Visual Media<br />

• Barry, Ann Marie Seward (1997): Visual Intelligence: Perception, Image and Manipulation in Visual<br />

Communication. New York: State University of New York Press<br />

• Burgin, Victor (Ed.) (1982): Thinking Photography. London: Macmillan<br />

• Davis, Howard & Paul Walton (Eds.) (1983): Language, Image, Media. Ox<strong>for</strong>d: Basil Blackwell<br />

[including Don Slater: 'Marketing Mass Photography', pp. 245-263]<br />

• Floch, Jean-Marie (2000): Visual Identities (trans. Pierre Van Osselaer & Alec McHoul). London:<br />

Continuum<br />

• Gombrich, Ernst H (1977): Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.<br />

London: Phaidon<br />

• Gombrich, Ernst H (1982): The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial<br />

Representation. London: Phaidon<br />

• Goodman, Nelson (1968): Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols. London: Ox<strong>for</strong>d<br />

University Press<br />

• Kress, Gunther & Theo van Leeuwen (1996): Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design.<br />

London: Routledge<br />

• Messaris, Paul (1994): Visual 'Literacy': Image, Mind and Reality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press<br />

• Tagg, John (1988): The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories.<br />

Basingstoke: Macmillan [recommended]<br />

Mass Communication<br />

• Bignell, Jonathan (1997): Media <strong>Semiotics</strong>: An Introduction. Manchester: Manchester University<br />

Press [a very readable British introduction]<br />

• Burgelin, Olivier (1968): 'Structural Analysis and Mass Communication'. In Denis McQuail (Ed.)<br />

(1972): Sociology of Mass Communications. Harmondsworth: Penguin<br />

• Danesi, Marcel (2002): Understanding Media <strong>Semiotics</strong> London: Arnold<br />

• Hall, Stuart ([1973] 1980): 'Encoding/decoding'. In Centre <strong>for</strong> Contemporary Cultural Studies (Ed.):<br />

Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79. London: Hutchinson, p.<br />

128-38 [important paper, particularly useful on denotation/connotation, though not initially an easy

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