Subject
Research Guides
First Year Seminars:
A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links about visual images in modern culture.
Background Information Sources
| The Advertising age encyclopedia of advertising | REF HF5803 .A38 2003 |
| Encyclopedia of Communication and Information | REF P87.5 E53 2002 |
| Measuring Up: How Advertising Affects Self-Image | REF P96.G44 S54 2002 |
| Sex Sells!: The media’s journey from repression to obsession | REF P96.S44 S77 2004 |
| Images that Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media | REF P96.S74 I45 2003 |
| Encyclopedia of Television | REF PN1992.18 E53 2004 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers Z 657-Z 658.
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- General Reference Center/InfoTrac: find articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- LexisNexis: Large database of newspaper articles.
- CQ Researcher: See “Advertising Overload,” “Celebrity Culture,” and “Broadcast Indecency.”
- Expanded Academic/InfoTrac: find academic research articles.
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Communications.
- Media and Communications Studies Site
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/sections/image.html
Collection of web links on a variety of visual image topics - Aesthetics and Visual Culture
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/aesthetics/
Collection of web links on topics relating to visual culture