1st Edition
Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse
1. From multimodal to critical multimodal studies through popular discourse Emilia Djonov & Sumin Zhao Part I: Methodological and theoretical challenges 2. Revisiting cinematic authorship: A multimodal approach Chiaoi Tseng & John A. Bateman 3. The television title sequence: A visual analysis of Flight of the Conchords Monika Bednarek 4. The strategic use of the visual mode in advertising metaphors Charles Forceville 5. Japanese street fashion for young people: A multimodal digital humanities approach for identifying socio-cultural patterns and trends Alexey Podlasov & Kay L. O’Halloran Part II: Key issues in contemporary popular culture 6. Multimodal constructions of the nation: How China’s music-entertainment television has incorporated Macau into the national fold Lauren Gorfinkel 7. A multimodal analysis of the environment beat in a music video Carmen Daniela Maier & Judith Leah Cross 8. Representations of the institutional ‘self’ in web-based business news discourse Sabine Tan 9. Selling the ‘indie taste’: A social semiotic analysis of frankie magazine Sumin Zhao 10. From popularization to marketization: The hypermodal nucleus in institutional science news Yiqiong Zhang & Kay L. O’Halloran Part III: New audienceship and authorship in popular discourse 11. Telling a different story: Stance in verbal-visual displays in the news Dorothy Economou 12. Point of view in picture books and animated film adaptations: Informing critical multimodal comprehension and composition pedagogy Len Unsworth 13. Points of difference: Intermodal complementarity and social critical literacy in children’s multimodal texts Angela Thomas 14. Bullet points, new writing, and the marketization of public discourse: A critical multimodal perspective Emilia Djonov & Theo Van Leeuwen 15. Towards a semiotics of listening Theo Van Leeuwen
Biography
Emilia Djonov is a Lecturer in multimodality and multiliteracies at the Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, Australia
Sumin Zhao is Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
