Media Reception Studies / Janet Staiger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staiger, Janet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Audiences.

Mass media.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media. Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago School, early psychological approaches, Soviet theory, the Frankfurt School, mass communication research and critical theory, linguistics and semiotic theory, social-psychoanalytical research, cognitive psychology, and cultural studies. She offers these theori

Contents:

Social scientific theories

Linguistic and cultural studies theories

Fans and fan behaviors

Viewers of stars, cult media, and avant garde

Minorities and media

Violence, horror, and sexually explicit images

Memories.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-8674-X

OCLC:

780425963