Eloquent Images Word and Image in the Age of New Media

Name: Eloquent Images Word and Image in the Age of New Media
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ISBN: 9780262582612

ISBN-10: 0262582619

ISBN-13: 9780262582612

Edition: 2005

Authors: Mary E. Hocks, Michelle R. Kendrick

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The emergence of New Media has stimulated debate about the power of the visual to dethrone the cultural prominence of textuality and print. Some scholars celebrate the proliferation of digital images, arguing that it suggests a return to a pictorial age when knowledge was communicated through images as well as through words. Others argue that the inherent conflict between texts and images creates a battleground between the feminized, seductive power of images and the masculine rationality of the printed word. Eloquent Imagessuggests that these debates misunderstand the dynamic interplay that has always existed between word and image. Arguing that the complex relationship between text and…

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List price: $5.75
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Mary E. Hocks is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Georgia State University.

Michelle R. Kendrick is Assistant Professor of English in the Program in Electronic Media and Culture at Washington State University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Eloquent Images




Visual and Verbal Practices in New Media



Critical Theory and the Challenge of New Media




Seriously Visible




The Dialogics of New Media: Video, Visualization, and Narrative in Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars




Historical Relationships between Word and Image



Recovering the Multimedia History of Writing in the Public Text of Ancient Egypt




Digital Images and Classical Persuasion




The Word as Image in an Age of Digital Reproduction




Perception and Knowledge in Visual and Verbal Texts



Same Difference: Evolving Conclusions about Textuality and New Media




Illustrations, Images, and Anti-Illustrations




Cognitive and Educational Implications of Visually Rich Media: Images and Imagination




Identities and Cultures in Digital Designs



Feminist Cyborgs Live on the World Wide Web: International and Not So International Contexts




Unheimlich Maneuver: Self-Image and Identificatory Practice In Virtual Reality Environments




Eloquent Interfaces: Humanities-Based Analysis in the Age of Hypermedia




Writing a Story in Virtual Reality