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.