The age of the image : redefining literacy in a world of screens / Stephen Apkon ; [foreword by Martin Scorsese].

We live in a world awash in images. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing. and distribution are more akin to the development of movable type than any other such revolution in the last 500 years. And yet we are not popularly cognizant of or conversant with the grammar of vi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Apkon, Stephen
Other Authors:	Scorsese, Martin
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Visual literacy. Visual communication. Visual perception. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy.
Physical Description:	xv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

All the world's a screen
What is literacy?
The brain sees pictures first
The evolution of the audience
The big business of images
Grammar, rhythm, and rhyme in the age of the image
Teaching a new generation
The sharpening picture.