Researching with visual materials: a brief survey -- Towards a critical visual methodology -- How to use this book -- 'The good eye': looking at pictures using compositional interpretation -- Content analysis: counting what you (think you) see -- Semiology: laying bare the prejudices beneath the smooth surface of the beautiful -- Psychoanalysis: visual culture, visual pleasure, visual disruption -- Discourse analysis I: text, intertextuality and context -- Discourse analysis II: institutions and ways of seeing -- To audience studies and beyond: ethnographies of television audiences, fans and users -- Making photographs as part of a research project: photo-documentation, photo-elicitation and photo-essays -- Ethics and visual research methodologies -- Visual methodologies: a review.

1. Visual communication
2. Visual literacy