Books by Kevin G Barnhurst
Media Queered is a groundbreaking assessment of minorities and the media. Authorities including L... more Media Queered is a groundbreaking assessment of minorities and the media. Authorities including Larry Gross, Edward Alwood, Lisa Henderson, and Marguerite Moritz join several new scholars to examine the history, economics, sociology, and technology of visibility. To supplement this research, media practitioners including journalists working in the gay and mainstream press contribute a unique series of interludes. The first is by Studs Terkel, who interviewed founders of the U.S. homophile movement. Written for scholars, students, and instructors of media and gender studies, Media Queered is also accessible for general readers intrigued by the recent flowering of queer characters, themes, and images in popular culture.
This book takes a fresh look at the role of the newspaper in United States civic culture. Unlike ... more This book takes a fresh look at the role of the newspaper in United States civic culture. Unlike other histories which focus only on the content of newspapers, this book digs deeper into ways of writing, systems of organizing content, and genres of presentation, including typography and pictures. The authors examine how these elements have combined to give newspapers a distinctive look at every historical moment, from the colonial to the digital eras. They reveal how the changing "form of news" reflects such major social forces as the rise of mass politics, the industrial revolution, the growth of the market economy, the course of modernism, and the emergence of the Internet. Whether serving as town meeting, court of opinion, marketplace, social map, or catalog of diversions, news forms are also shown to embody cultural authority, allowing readers to see and relate to the world from a particular perspective. Including over 70 illustrations, the book explores such compelling themes as the role of news in a democratic society, the relationship between news and visual culture, and the ways newspapers have shaped the meaning of citizenship. —From the book jacket
In these days of tabloid television and slick magazines, the daily newspaper may seem old-fashion... more In these days of tabloid television and slick magazines, the daily newspaper may seem old-fashioned and predictable. Here Kevin G. Barnhurst takes a second glance at the "look" of the newspaper: the architecture of the page. Seeing the Newspaper explores the history and meaning of the visual and graphic elements of the page, including the use of charts, type, and white space. The book points out that layout and design may appear secondary in importance to content, but can actually shape our impressions of the news as much as the words we read. The organization of the front page, for example, influences the order in which we read stories and how we rank news events and issues. Barnhurst, a former graphic designer, writes in an anecdotal style that will appeal not only to graphic arts enthusiasts but to everyone who finds joy in the early-morning ritual of reading the paper.
Visual Studies by Kevin G Barnhurst
Formal theories reveal a visual dimension underlying better-known picture theories. Patterns of e... more Formal theories reveal a visual dimension underlying better-known picture theories. Patterns of elements such as lines, shapes, and spaces, along with their properties, generate emotional responses and follow visual styles in society. The elements combine into systems that create perspectives on the world. Formal awareness may generate an understanding of visual philosophies and their inherent values and consequences. Picture theories start from the tension between scientific invention and artistic expression. From linguistics and philosophy, semiotics provides terms for analyzing pictures as signs that mediate among mind, eye, and reality, operate within codes, and reproduce mythology. From film and literary aesthetics, narrative theory offers analytical structures that reproduce realism through supposed objectivity, rationality, and autonomy in dialogue with conventions and genres. Critical, cultural, and poststructural theories assert the inauthenticity of pictures, social construction of representation, and instability of meaning. Visual aesthetics, analysis, criticism, and ethics have entered flux in digital times.
Imagery in Science & the Arts, 1993
Journal of Communication, Jan 1, 1996
pp. 1 b&w illus. $29.95 (soft).
New York: St Martin's Press, Jan 1, 1994
Revista Latina de comunicación social, Jan 1, 1998
Con el paso de estos años ha sido soporte de centenares de artículos y ha servido para presentar ... more Con el paso de estos años ha sido soporte de centenares de artículos y ha servido para presentar a la comunidad académica de lengua castellana los primeros artículos de muchos profesores de un lado y otro del Atlántico en el ámbito de la Comunicación Social.
Revista Latina de comunicación social, Jan 1, 1998
Con el paso de estos años ha sido soporte de centenares de artÃculos y ha servido para presentar... more Con el paso de estos años ha sido soporte de centenares de artÃculos y ha servido para presentar a la comunidad académica de lengua castellana los primeros artÃculos de muchos profesores de un lado y otro del Atlántico en el ámbito de la Comunicación Social.
Revista Latina de comunicación social, Jan 1, 1999
Con el paso de estos años ha sido soporte de centenares de artículos y ha servido para presentar ... more Con el paso de estos años ha sido soporte de centenares de artículos y ha servido para presentar a la comunidad académica de lengua castellana los primeros artículos de muchos profesores de un lado y otro del Atlántico en el ámbito de la Comunicación Social.
Kevin G. Barnhurst and D. Charles Whitney. In Investigating Visual Literacy, pp. 25–36. Ed. Judy ... more Kevin G. Barnhurst and D. Charles Whitney. In Investigating Visual Literacy, pp. 25–36. Ed. Judy Clark-Baca, Darrell G. Beauchamp, and Roberts A. Braden. Blacksburg: IVLA, 1991.
Visual Communication: Bridging Across Cultures, 1992
Visual Literacy in the Digital Age, 1994
Visual Literacy in the Digital Age, 1994
Newspaper layout and design studies ignore politics, and most studies of newspaper politics ignor... more Newspaper layout and design studies ignore politics, and most studies of newspaper politics ignore pisual design. News layout is generally thought to be a set of neutral, efficient practices. This study suggests that the political position of Peru pian newspapers parallels their pisual presentation of terrorism. The liberal La Republica copered epents in the insurgency extensipely and explicitly, as predicted. Conserpatipe newspapers attempted to control terrorism by reducing the extent and limiting the prominence of coperage. One newspaper, the prestigious El Comercio, used layout as a primary tool to downplay news of Sendtro Luminoso.
Photo-Textualities: Reading Photographs and …, Jan 1, 1996
Postscript: Beyond the Frame 151 surface is then decorated in ways that obscure that assertion. I... more Postscript: Beyond the Frame 151 surface is then decorated in ways that obscure that assertion. In short, all systems of perspective assign power and privilege but disguise these purposes behind another layer of naturalizing representations, so that the resulting imagery seems completely natural and real.
Journalism and Mass Communication …, Jan 1, 1999
Journalism Studies, Jan 1, 2001
Thinking Geometrically: Re-Visioning Space for a Multimodal World, 2002
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Books by Kevin G Barnhurst
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