 | Visual Communication: Images with Messages (with InfoTrac®) by Paul Martin Lester
Buy new: $77.58 / Used from: $71.91 Dr. Lester's book is one of the strongest and most user friendly texts to introduce people to the field of visual co
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 | Mythologies by Roland Barthes
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $4.50 Roland Barthes takes a theoretical but highly readable early approach to visual culture arguing that visions create new mythologies that enslave us and entertain us. He talks about film stars, wrestling matches and in
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 | Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology (Studies in Popular Culture) by Richard Reynolds
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $25.43 Reynolds book ,as it states, compares the notion of super heroes to modern gods and the comparison n is apt and clearly presented. s
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 | Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series by John Berger
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $4.37 Berger's book analyzes art, media , and the way cultures conceive visual fields and perspectives. Berger's very readable style emerges from a text originally prepared for British TV's BBC show, THE WAYS OF SEEINg
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 | Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture by Marita Sturken
Buy new: $47.65 / Used from: $41.00 Sturken and Cartwright bring up the issue of photographic truth, media spectatorship, and advertising and consumer culture
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 | Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book) by Umberto Eco
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.71 This text explores visual codes and pop culture. Subjects like Disneyworld and film texts are explored and Eco cleverly discusses how films like Casablanca evolve from cliche exercises to so-called 'classics.'
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 | Visual Culture: The Reader (Published in association with The Open University)
Buy new: $135.00 / Used from: $83.16 Evans and Hall provide a sparkling array of mostly theoretical texts on visual culture. The list of writers is a who's who of cultural studies heavy weights including guy debord, walter benjamin, and susan sontag ,
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 | The Visual Culture Reader
Buy new: $41.35 / Used from: $23.00 Dr. Mizroefff's book covers exotic terriotory suchh as techno feminism, the gaze, and visual colonialism. However, he provides a wide range of advanced scholars and thinkers to wrestle with issues of visual communication and its impact on society.
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 | Art School Confidential
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.50 If the debate on visual communication can seem tedious and academic than try this delightful parody of art school intellectuals and their often vapid rhetoric. John Malkovich reclaims his camp title here...
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