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Reading media : how to do textual analysis / edited by Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical cultural communication
- Critical Cultural Communication Series ; v.52
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Research--Methodology.
- Mass media.
- Criticism, Textual.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- Innovative methods in textual analysis to decode today's ever-expanding media landscape Reading Media: How to do Textual Analysis reinvigorates one of media and cultural studies' most foundational methods at a moment when it is most needed, showing its continuing vitality by adapting it to new media environments, cultural objects, and scholarly.
- Contents:
- Welcome to the text / Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon
- Textual analysis: the foundational method / Susan J. Douglas
- Producing meaningful analyses of racial representations / Lori Kido Lopez
- The upside-down comic book : a narratological analysis of M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable / Patrick Keating
- At the first sign : analyzing television posters with semiotics / Jonathan Gray
- Fragmented, playful, uncomfortable : the textual analysis of digital games / Diane Carr
- Historical poetics and TikTok / Meg Herrmann and Ted Nannicelli
- Reading gender relations in an Afrobeats music video : a multimodal textual analysis / Simphewe Rens
- How to read a colony on a game-board : Settlers of Catan and postcolonial thinking / Souvik Mukherjee
- An autotheory for game studies : Shadow of the Colossus / Soraya Murray
- Is there an argument about this text? Textual analysis as collaborative disputation / Paul Frosh and Lillian Boxman-Shabtai
- What could rubbish say? On the textual politics of plastic waste / Mehita Iqani
- "That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination" : analyzing decoration and plot in Walt Disney World Resort's Pandora : The valley of Mo'ara / Colin Burnett
- Images on the move : close reading migrant and refugee authored media online / Eszter Zimanyi
- Reading the effects program : the Mission: impossible series and special/visual effects discourse / Julie Turnock
- "Such amaze, much wow" : (or how to read a meme) / Anirban K. Baishya
- A textual analysis of #RIPTwitter / Raven Maragh-Lloyd
- The Dateline formula : true crime, genre, and citizenship / Laurie Ouellette
- Playing with patterns : an approach to analyzing children's television texts / Kyra Hunting
- A new situation : textual analysis across TV texts / Daphne Gershon
- Transmedia Tarantino : reading the many texts of Once upon a time in Hollywood / Henry Jenkins
- Exploring soundwork : texts, technologies, and cultural form / Michele Hilmes
- Patterns and categories : connecting textual features and industrial conditions / Amanda D. Lotz
- Audience-led textual analysis : the case of Bridgerton's Daphne raping the Duke / Joke Hermes
- Analyzing texts using sounds and images : making video essays as critical practice / Jason Mittell
- Getting critical : how NPR's TV critic analyzes media for a mass audience / Eric Deggans.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781479830336
- 1-4798-3033-X
- OCLC:
- 1564690353
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