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Here you can find references that are relevant to studies of the visual. You can browse this full bibliography, or look at specialized lists of online journals or references related to composition studies.

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Aristotle. Aristotle on Rhetoric: A Theory of Civil Discourse. Trans. George A. Kennedy. Ed. George A. Kennedy. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.

Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. 1980. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981.

---. Elements of Semiology. 1964. Trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith. New York: Hill and Wang, 1968.

---. Mythologies. 1957. Trans. Annette Lavers. Ed. Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

Baudrillard, Jean. Selected Writings. Poster, Mark. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.

---. Simulacra and Simulation. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. The Body, in Theory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Beller, Jonathan. "Visual Culture." New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Horowitz. Vol. 6. 6 vols. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005. 2423–29.

Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Trans. Harry Zohn. Illuminations. 1955. Ed. Hannah Arendt. Reprint ed. New York: Schocken Books, 1986. 217–52. 1968.

Bentham, Jeremy. "Panopticon: Or, the Inspection-House, Containing the Idea of a New Principle of Construction Applicable to Any Sort of Establishment, in Which Persons of Any Description Are to Be Kept under Inspection, and in Particular to Penitentiary-Houses, Prisons, Houses of Industry, Work-Houses, Poor-Houses, Lazarettos, Manufactories, Hospitals, Mad-Houses, and Schools: With a Plan of Management Adapted to the Principle: In a Series of Letters, Written in the Year 1787, from Crecheff in White Russia to a Friend in England." The Panopticon Writings. Ed. Miran Bozovic. London: Verso, 1995. 29–95.

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, 1972.

Brower, Kenneth. "Photography in the Age of Falsification." The Atlantic Monthly May 1998: 92–109.

Debord, Guy. Comments on the Society of the Spectacle. 1988. Trans. Malcolm Imrie. London: Verso, 1998.

---. The Society of the Spectacle. 1967. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone Books, 1994.

Elkins, James. Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Faigley, Lester. "Material Literacy and Visual Design." Rhetorical Bodies: Toward a Material Rhetoric. Eds. Jack Selzer and Sharon Crowley. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. 171–201.

Foss, Sonja K. "Visual Imagery as Communication." Rev. of Semiotics of Visual Language, Metaphor & Art: Interactionism and Reference in the Verbal and Nonverbal Arts, and Evisioning Information. Text and Performance Quarterly 12.1 (1992): 85–90.

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977. Trans. Colin Gordon. Ed. Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon, 1980.

Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. 1962. Trans. Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence. Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.

Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment. 1944. Trans. John Cumming. New York: Continuum, 1972.

Koskela, Hille. "‘the Gaze without Eyes’: Video-Surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban Space." Progress in Human Geography 24.2 (2000): 243–65.

Lacan, Jacques. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI. 1973. Trans. Alan Sheridan. Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller. New York: Norton, 1978. 1998.

Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. 1980. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Lanham, Richard A. The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

---. "What’s Next for Text?" The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. London: Routledge, 1999.

Morris, Charles W. Foundations of the Theory of Signs. International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Eds. Neurath Otto, Rudolf Carnap and Charles W. Morris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938.

Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader. Ed. Philip Rosen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. 198–209.

Peirce, Charles S. Philosophical Writings of Peirce. 1940. Ed. Justus Buchler. New York: Dover, 1955.

Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. 1959. Trans. Roy Harris. Eds. Charles Bally, Albert Sechehaye and Albert Riedlinger. Reprint ed. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, 1986.

Silverman, Kaja. The Subject of Semiotics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Sontag, Susan. On Photography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

---. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Sturken, Marita, and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 1990.

---. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 2001.

---. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 1997.

Williams, Raymond. Television: Technology and Cultural Form. 1974. Routledge Classics. Ed. Ederyn Williams. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1990. 2003.

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