Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images in Books for Young People

<p>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 in global and multicultural literature, chapter authors explore and bring together critical theory and social semiotics while demonstrating how visual analysis can be used to uncover and analyze power, ideologies, inequity, and resistance in picturebooks and graphic novels. This volume covers a diverse range of texts and types of books and offers tools and procedures for interpreting visual images to enhance the understandings of researchers, teachers, and students as they engage with the visual culture that fills our world. These methods are significant not only to becoming a critical reader of literature but to also becoming a critical reader of visual images in everyday life. </p> <p><strong>Research Methodology and Analytical Tools</strong></p><p>Chapter 1 Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images </p><p>Kathy G. Short with the Worlds of Words Community</p><p>Chapter 2 Image Analysis Using Systemic-Functional Semiotics</p><p>Clare Painter</p><p><b>Visual Images in Counter-Narratives</b></p><p>Chapter 3 Drawing Humanity: How Picturebook Illustrations Counter Antiblackness</p><p>Desiree Cueto and Wanda Brooks</p><p>Chapter 4 Examining the Visual in Latinx Immigrant Journey Picturebooks </p><p>Janine M. Schall, Julia López-Robertson, and Jeanne G. Fain</p><p>Chapter 5 A Visual Analysis through the Eyes of an Apache</p><p>Angeline P. Hoffman</p><p>Chapter 6 Developing Agency and Socialization through Interpretive Play </p><p>Janelle Mathis</p><p><b>Visual Images and Positioning </b></p><p>Chapter 7 The Power of a Gaze: Inviting Entrée into the World of a Picturebook while Positioning a Lived Reality</p><p>Holly Johnson</p><p>Chapter 8 De(MIST)ifying Depression: Dark Clouds and the Construction of Disability</p><p>Desiree Cueto, Susan Corapi, and Megan McCaffrey</p><p>Chapter 9 Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Comparison of Image in an App and a Picturebook</p><p>Deanna Day</p><p>Visual Images and Ideologies</p><p>Chapter 10 <i>Holy Molé!</i> and the Reproduction of a Colonialist Perspective </p><p>Carmen M. Martínez-Roldán, and Denise Dávila</p><p>Chapter 11 Postwar Images: Japanese Ideologies of National Identity in Picturebooks</p><p>Junko Sakoi and Yoo Kyung Sung</p><p>Chapter 12 Immigrant Memoirs as Reflections of Time and Place: Middle Eastern Conflict in Graphic Novels</p><p>Seemi Aziz</p><p>Chapter 13 The De-Queering of <i>Heather Has Two Mommies</i></p><p>Mary L. Fahrenbruck and Tabitha P. Collins</p><p>Chapter 14 A Picturebook as a Cultural Artifact: The Influence of Embedded Ideologies </p><p>Hee Young Kim and Kathy G. Short </p><p>Final Reflections</p><p>Chapter 15 Extending a Critical Lens into Our Classrooms</p><p>Kathy G. Short with the Worlds of Words Community </p>