An engaging guide to the skills needed to analyse images of all kinds, and a lucid introduction to the emerging field of visual culture.

Tony Schirato is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Film and Theatre at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. He is the co-author of Communication and Cultural Literacy. Jen Webb is Senior Lecturer and Director of Writing in the School of Creative Communication at the University of Canberra, Australia. They are both co-authors of Understanding Foucault and Understanding Bourdieu.

Introduction
1. Reading the visual
2. Visual technologies
3. Communication and the visual
4. Visual narratives
5. Visual art, visual culture
6. Normalising vision
7. Selling the visual
8. The media as spectacle
Glossary
References
Index