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1. The Language of Colour

   An introduction

   By Theo Van Leeuwen

   The Language of Colour provides a fresh and innovative approach to the study of colour from the co-author of the best-selling textbook, Reading Images. Moving on from the meanings of single colours, Theo van Leeuwen develops the theory that many different features shape the way we attach meaning...

   Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
2. The Language of New Media Design

   Theory and Practice

   By Radan Martinec, Theo van Leeuwen

   ‘This textbook is really a road map for how research in new media should evolve. It offers such an overwhelming variety of examples, it is so clearly written, it is so stimulating in research topics. This book should be the base of MA courses all over the world.’ – Jan Renkema, Tilburg University,...

   Published July 30th 2008 by Routledge
3. Global Media Discourse

   A Critical Introduction

   By David Machin, Theo Van Leeuwen

   Featuring a wide range of exercises, examples, and images, this textbook provides a practical way of analyzing the discourses of the global media industries. Building on a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of global media communication, specific case studies of...

   Published May 15th 2007 by Routledge
4. Reading Images

   The Grammar of Visual Design, 2nd Edition

   By Gunther Kress, Theo van Leeuwen, Gunther Kress, Theo van Leeuwen

   This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well...

   Published March 29th 2006 by Routledge
5. Introducing Social Semiotics

   An Introductory Textbook

   By Theo van Leeuwen

   Introducing Social Semiotics uses a wide variety of texts including photographs, adverts, magazine pages and film stills to explain how meaning is created through complex semiotic interactions. Practical exercises and examples as wide ranging as furniture arrangements in public places and ...

   Published December 12th 2004 by Routledge
6. Reading Images

   The Grammar of Visual Design

   By Gunther Kress, Theo van Leeuwen, Gunther Kress, Theo van Leeuwen

   Reading Images provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples, Kress and van Leeunwen examine the ways in which images communicate meaning....

   Published March 27th 1996 by Routledge