Matteo Stocchetti

List of John Benjamins publications in which Matteo Stocchetti is involved.

Title

Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication

Edited by Matteo Stocchetti and Karin Kukkonen

News coverage of EU negotiations, children’s war memories or TV series glamourising political processes – images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as “images in use”, this volume considers… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 44] 2011. vi, 298 pp.

Articles

Stocchetti, Matteo 2011 Chapter 1. Images: Who gets what, when and how? Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication, Stocchetti, Matteo and Karin Kukkonen (eds.), pp. 11–37 | Article

This introductory chapter explains what it means to reinscribe the political dimension into studying images. Ever since the ‘visual turn’ was proclaimed by W. J. T. Mitchell, images have been analysed for what they ‘do’ to their observers, for the almost magical power they seem to have. In a basic… read more

Stocchetti, Matteo and Karin Kukkonen 2011 Introduction Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication, Stocchetti, Matteo and Karin Kukkonen (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Article

Stocchetti, Matteo 2007 The politics of fear: A critical inquiry into the role of violence in 21st century politics Discourse, War and Terrorism, Hodges, Adam and Chad Nilep (eds.), pp. 223–241 | Chapter