Demonstrates the possibility of the integration of a wider spectrum of film theories into the various worldviews of communication study. Highlights include relationships of worldview paradigms to theoretical and critical positions; and aspects of aesthetic theory and criticism. (Contains 75 references.) (Author/LRW)

Sharing some organizational frameworks, this paper presents two groups of diagrams that have been employed in various communication classes to illustrate how theoretical understandings can be used as paradigms to help organize information in a more clarified manner. The first part of the paper discusses diagrams which are directly relevant to…

Detailed analyses are made of the concepts of window (seemingly deep spatial renderings) and frame (flatter, more technique-conscious structures) as they apply to a wide variety of visual media and communicative purposes. Special cases of each of these are detailed, along with their applications in cinema history to a range of realist, formalist,…

To negotiate a balance between an ideological concern for society's historical-economic development and an understanding of the individual's need for a sense of self-realization, social theory researchers should look to B. Dervin's "gap theory model" of communication. Adapted from Kenneth Burke, it offers a dynamic means of understanding…

Interpersonal and mass communication are aspects of the same basic discipline, but unnecessary divisions have evolved between the two. Through application of visual analysis concepts, encouragement is given toward reconnections between the two fields of study. Preconditions and assumptions that frame any communicating act are related to the…