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

By:

Apkon, Stephen

Contributor(s):

Scorsese, Martin Charles, 1942- [prólogo]

Language: eng Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014Description: xv, 263 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780374534509

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

370.15/5

LOC classification:

LB 1068 A642a 2014

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.

Summary: "We live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing, and distribution are more akin to the development of movable type than any other such revolution of the last 500 years. And yet we are not popularly cognizant of or conversant with visual storytelling's grammar, the coded messages of its style, and the practical components of its production. We are largely, in a word, illiterate. But this is not a gloomy diagnosis of the collapse of civilization; rather, it is a celebration of the progress we've made. In The Age of the Image, Apkon drawns on the history of literacy, on the science of how storytelling works on the human brain, and on the practical value of literacy in real-world situations to convince us that now is the time to transform the way we teach, create, and communicate"--Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	LB 1068 A642a 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000126884

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.

"We live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing, and distribution are more akin to the development of movable type than any other such revolution of the last 500 years. And yet we are not popularly cognizant of or conversant with visual storytelling's grammar, the coded messages of its style, and the practical components of its production. We are largely, in a word, illiterate. But this is not a gloomy diagnosis of the collapse of civilization; rather, it is a celebration of the progress we've made. In The Age of the Image, Apkon drawns on the history of literacy, on the science of how storytelling works on the human brain, and on the practical value of literacy in real-world situations to convince us that now is the time to transform the way we teach, create, and communicate"--Back cover.

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