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Personal Author:  Hickey, Dave, 1940-

ISBN:  0963726455

Summary: Air Guitar pioneered a kind of plain-talking in cultural criticism, willingly subjective and always candid and direct. A valuable reading tool for art lovers, neophytes, students and teachers alike, Hickey’s book—now in its third edition—has galvanized a generation of art lovers, with new takes on Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol and Perry Mason.

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Personal Author:  Cowan, Andrew.

Publication Note:  London : Routledge, 2013. ©2011

ISBN: 9781317861539 (electronic bk.) 9781283733939 (electronic bk.)

Summary: ‘The Art of Writing Fiction’ guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing, offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid.

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Personal Author:  Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965-

Publication Note: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

ISBN:  9780822385783 (electronic bk.)

Summary:  Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.”

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Publication Note:  Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

ISBN:  9780822391432 (electronic bk.) 9781283036108 (electronic bk.)

Summary:  In ‘Still Moving’ noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography.

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Personal Author:  Howells, Richard, 1956-

Publication Note:  Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Medford, Massachusetts : Polity, 2019.

ISBN:  9781509518814 (electronic bk.)

Summary:  This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our increasingly visual world

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Personal Author:  Debord, Guy, 1931-1994,

Publication Note:  New York : Zone Books, 1994.

ISBN:  9781617508301 (electronic bk.) 9780941215312 (electronic bk.)

Summary:  The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. 

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Personal Author:  Davis, Meredith.

Publication Note:  New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2012.

ISBN: 9780500774977 (electronic bk.)

Summary: A vital textbook for students that explores the complex theories underpinning contemporary graphic design.

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Publication Note: London ; New York : Verso, 2015.

ISBN: 9781784782047 (electronic bk.)

Summary: This book delves into Walter Benjamin’s archive of artefacts, images, texts. Including: photographs; Russian toys; picture postcards; registers; card indexes and catalogues; notebooks; a collation of his son’s first words.

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Personal Author:  McMillan, Kathleen,

Publication Note:  Harlow, England : Pearson, 2013.

ISBN: 9780273773351 (electronic bk.) 

Summary: This easy-to-use guide identifies and addresses the key areas where most students need help in developing and enhancing the critical thinking and writing skills that are crucial to successful academic study, and provides practical tips and solutions. 

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Personal Author:  Bell, Judith, 1930-

Publication Note:  Maidenhead, Berkshire, England : McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. ©2014

Edition:  Sixth edition.

ISBN: 9780335264476 (electronic bk.) 9781322606002 (electronic bk.)

Summary: Doing your Research Project is the market leading book for students across the social sciences conducting small scale research projects.

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Added Author: Berry, David, 1960-

Publication Note:  Burlington, Mass. ; Oxfordshire, England : Focal Press, 2000.

ISBN:  9781136029387 (electronic bk.) 9780080573809 (electronic bk.)

Summary:  Ethics and Media Culture straddles the practical and ethical issues of contention encountered by journalists.

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Personal Author: Ingold, Tim, 1948-

Publication Note:  London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

ISBN: 9781315625324 (electronic bk.) 

Summary: This is the first book to explore the production and significance of lines. Written by a leading expert in the field, this text offers a radically different approach to anthropological and archaeological studies.

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