"Extending the discussion of critical content analysis to the visual realm of picturebooks and graphic novels, this book provides a clear research methodology for understanding and analyzing visual imagery. Offering strategies for ""reading"" illustrations in global and multicultural literature, chapter authors explore and bring together critical theory and social semiotics while demonstrating how visual analysis can be used to uncover and analyze power, ideologies, inequity, and resistance in picturebooks and graphic novels. This volume covers a diverse range of texts and types of books and offers tools and procedures for interpreting visual images to enhance the understandings of researchers, teachers, and students as they engage with the visual culture that fills our world. These methods are significant not only to becoming a critical reader of literature but to also becoming a critical reader of visual images in everyday life."
Edited by:
Holly Johnson,
Janelle Mathis,
Kathy Short
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9781138387065
ISBN 10: 1138387061
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 25 June 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
,
A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Research Methodology and Analytical Tools Chapter 1 Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images Kathy G. Short with the Worlds of Words Community Chapter 2 Image Analysis Using Systemic-Functional Semiotics Clare Painter Visual Images in Counter-Narratives Chapter 3 Drawing Humanity: How Picturebook Illustrations Counter Antiblackness Desiree Cueto and Wanda Brooks Chapter 4 Examining the Visual in Latinx Immigrant Journey Picturebooks Janine M. Schall, Julia López-Robertson, and Jeanne G. Fain Chapter 5 A Visual Analysis through the Eyes of an Apache Angeline P. Hoffman Chapter 6 Developing Agency and Socialization through Interpretive Play Janelle Mathis Visual Images and Positioning Chapter 7 The Power of a Gaze: Inviting Entrée into the World of a Picturebook while Positioning a Lived Reality Holly Johnson Chapter 8 De(MIST)ifying Depression: Dark Clouds and the Construction of Disability Desiree Cueto, Susan Corapi, and Megan McCaffrey Chapter 9 Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Comparison of Image in an App and a Picturebook Deanna Day Visual Images and Ideologies Chapter 10 Holy Molé! and the Reproduction of a Colonialist Perspective Carmen M. Martínez-Roldán, and Denise Dávila Chapter 11 Postwar Images: Japanese Ideologies of National Identity in Picturebooks Junko Sakoi and Yoo Kyung Sung Chapter 12 Immigrant Memoirs as Reflections of Time and Place: Middle Eastern Conflict in Graphic Novels Seemi Aziz Chapter 13 The De-Queering of Heather Has Two Mommies Mary L. Fahrenbruck and Tabitha P. Collins Chapter 14 A Picturebook as a Cultural Artifact: The Influence of Embedded Ideologies Hee Young Kim and Kathy G. Short Final Reflections Chapter 15 Extending a Critical Lens into Our Classrooms Kathy G. Short with the Worlds of Words Community
Holly Johnson is a professor at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Janelle Mathis is a professor at the University of North Texas, USA. Kathy G. Short is a professor at the University of Arizona, USA.
Reviews for Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images in Books for Young People: Reading Images
"""This volune of collected essays is not only an insightful and varied study for scholars in the field of literature studies but also offers valuable guidelines and suggestions for educators working the literature for children."" - Claudia Söffner, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature"
