Media studies : a reader / edited by Sue Thornham, Caroline Bassett and Paul Marris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thornham, Sue, editor.

Bassett, Caroline, editor.

Marris, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media.

Mass media--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 894 pages)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2009]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued, and understood.

Contents:

Studying the media. Foundations. Culture industry reconsidered / Theodor W. Adorno

Medium is the message / Marshall McLuhan

Encoding/decoding / Stuart Hall

Power of the image / Annette Kuhn

Public sphere / Jurgen Habermas

Masses : the implosion of the social in the media / Jean Baudrillard

Truth and power / Michael Foucalult

Practice of everyday life / Michel de Certeau

Postscript on the societies of control / Gilles Deleuze

Some properties of fields / Pierre Bourdieu

Media in the public sphere. Introduction to Orientalism / Edward Said

Mass culture as woman : modernism's other / Andreas Huyssen

Globalization of communication / John B. Thompson

Introduction to the information age / Maueal Castells

Not only, but also : mixedness and media / Annabelle Sreberny

Representation. Textual structures. Programming as sequence or flow / Raymond Williams

Broadcast TV narration / John Ellis

Role of stereotypes / Richard Dyer

Genre, representation and soap opera / Christine Gledhill

Rhetoric, play, and performance / Roger Silverstone

Database as a symbolic form / Lev Manovich

Politics of representation. Fictions and ideologies : the case of situation comedy / Janet Woollacott

New ethnicities / Stuart Hall

Skin flicks on the racial border : pornography, exploitation, and interracial lust / Linda Williams

Between the blues and the blues dance : some soundscapes of the Black Atlantic / Paul Gilroy

Queering home or domesticating deviance? Interrogating gay domesticity through lifestyle television / Andrew Gorman-Murray

Feminist readings. Survival skills and daydreams / Janice Winship

Reading the slender body / Susan Bordo

Role of soap opera in the development of feminist television scholarship / Charlotte Brunsdon

Postmodernism and popular culture / Angela McRobbie

Playing the game : young girls performing femininity in video game play / Valerie Walkerdine

Audiences. 'Effects' debate. On the social effects of television / James D. Halloran

Television audience : a revised perspective / Denis McQuail, Jay G. Blumler and J.R. Brown

Sociology of media power : key issues in audience reception research / Jenny Kitzinger

From bad research to good, a guide for the perplexed / Martin Barker, Julian Petley

Politics of reading. Reading the romance / Janice Radway

Wanted : audiences. On the politics of empirical audience studies / Ien Ang

Oppositional gaze : Black female spectators' / bell hooks

There is something queer here / Alexander Doty

Banal transnationalism : the difference that television makes / Asu Aksoy, Kevin robins

Behind closed doors : video recorders in the home / Ann Gray

Media, meaning, and everyday life / Joke Hermes

What's "home" got to do with it? Contradictory dynamics in the domestication of technology and the dislocation of domesticity / David Morley

No dead air! the iPod and the culture of mobile listening / Michael Bull

'Reality' television. Reality TV and social perversion / Bill Nichols

Rise of reality TV / Annette Hill

Public and private bodies / Sue Thornham

Celebrity, social mobility and the future of reality TV / Anita Biressi, Heather Nunn

Teaching us to fake it : the ritualized norms of television's "reality" games / Nick Couldry

News and documentary. News values and news production / Peter Golding, Philip Elliott

Social production of news / Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, Brian Roberts

Politicizing the personal : women's voices in British television documentaries / Myra Macdonald

News media and the globalization of the public sphere / Stig Hjarvard

Bad news from Israel / Greg Philo, Mike Berry

Picturizing science : the science documentary as multimedia spectacle / José van Kijck

Advertising and promotional culture. Advertising : the magic system / Raymond Williams

Advertising, magazine culture, and the "new man" / Sean Nixon

Soft-soaping empire : commodity racism and imperial advertising / Anne McClintock

Promotional condition of contemporary culture / Andrew Wernick

Social communication in advertising / William Leiss, Stephen Kline, Sut Jhally, Jacqueline Botterill

New technologies, new media? Cyberspace and the world we live in / Kevin Robins

Work of being watched : interactive media and the exploitation of self-disclosure / Mark Andrejevic

The MP3 as cultural artifact / Jonathan Sterne

Beyond anonymity, or future directions for internet identity research / Helen Kennedy

Cultural studies and new media / Caroline Bassett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Media studies.

ISBN:

1474473237

9781474473231

OCLC:

1145826648

Publisher Number:

10.3366/j.ctvxcrv1h

Access Restriction:

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