Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images in Books for Young People

Extending the discussion of critical content analysis to the visual realm of picturebooks and graphic novels, this book provides a clear research methodology for understanding and analyzing visual imagery. Offering strategies for "reading" illustrations, chapter authors explore and bring together critical theory and social semiotics.

Autorentext

Holly Johnson is a professor at the University of Cincinnati, USA.

Janelle Mathis is a professor at the University of North Texas, USA.

Kathy G. Short is a professor at the University of Arizona, USA.

Inhalt

Research Methodology and Analytical Tools

Chapter 1 Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images

Kathy G. Short with the Worlds of Words Community

Chapter 2 Image Analysis Using Systemic-Functional Semiotics

Clare Painter

Visual Images in Counter-Narratives

Chapter 3 Drawing Humanity: How Picturebook Illustrations Counter Antiblackness

Desiree Cueto and Wanda Brooks

Chapter 4 Examining the Visual in Latinx Immigrant Journey Picturebooks

Janine M. Schall, Julia López-Robertson, and Jeanne G. Fain

Chapter 5 A Visual Analysis through the Eyes of an Apache

Angeline P. Hoffman

Chapter 6 Developing Agency and Socialization through Interpretive Play

Janelle Mathis

Visual Images and Positioning

Chapter 7 The Power of a Gaze: Inviting Entrée into the World of a Picturebook while Positioning a Lived Reality

Holly Johnson

Chapter 8 De(MIST)ifying Depression: Dark Clouds and the Construction of Disability

Desiree Cueto, Susan Corapi, and Megan McCaffrey

Chapter 9 Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Comparison of Image in an App and a Picturebook

Deanna Day

Visual Images and Ideologies

Chapter 10 Holy Molé! and the Reproduction of a Colonialist Perspective

Carmen M. Martínez-Roldán, and Denise Dávila

Chapter 11 Postwar Images: Japanese Ideologies of National Identity in Picturebooks

Junko Sakoi and Yoo Kyung Sung

Chapter 12 Immigrant Memoirs as Reflections of Time and Place: Middle Eastern Conflict in Graphic Novels

Seemi Aziz

Chapter 13 The De-Queering of Heather Has Two Mommies

Mary L. Fahrenbruck and Tabitha P. Collins

Chapter 14 A Picturebook as a Cultural Artifact: The Influence of Embedded Ideologies

Hee Young Kim and Kathy G. Short

Final Reflections

Chapter 15 Extending a Critical Lens into Our Classrooms

Kathy G. Short with the Worlds of Words Community