Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials Gillian Rose Comprehensively revised and updated, this new edition of Gillian Rose's Visual Methodologies provides a critical introduction to the study and interpretation of visual culture. Written especially for researchers who want to work with visual materials, this book explains which methods are available and how to use them. The text provides: * An overview which discusses working with visual materials and which offers a guide to using the book. * Chapter by chapter, detailed critical assessment of a particular visual method that assesses the method's strengths and weaknesses. * Assessments of compositional interpretation, content analysis, semiology, psychoanalysis, discourse analysis, audience studies, anthropological approaches to visual materials; as well as guidance on making images as part of social science research. Visual Methodologies is essential reading for students and researchers involved in the study of visual culture in the social sciences. Gillian Rose is Professor of Cultural Geography at The Open University.