Prof. Paul Messaris published in the Journal of Communication

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Paul Messaris, Ph.D., the Lev Kuleshov Professor of Communication, has written a review essay of five books about visual communication titled “Visual Communication and Social Advocacy.” His work appears in the Journal of Communication (March 2010, pp. E1 – E8). The essay is on the following books: Filming difference: Actors, directors, producers, and writers on gender, race, and sexuality in film by Daniel Bernardi (University of Texas Press, 2009); The other half: The life of Jacob Riis and the world of immigrant America by Tom Buk-Swienty. Tr. Annette Buk-Swienty (W.W. Norton & Co., 2008); Gay identity, new storytelling and the media by Christopher Pullen (Macmillan 2009); Beautiful suffering: Photography and the traffic in pain by Mark Reinhardt, Holly Edwards, and Erinna Duganne (Williams College Museum of Art 2007); and Daring to look: Dorothea Lange’s photographs and reports from the field by Anne Whiston Spirn (University of Chicago 2008).