ISBN:
9781118553978
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (402 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Critical Media Studies : An Introduction
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Fully revised to reflect today's media environment, this new edition of Critical Media Studies offers students a comprehensive introduction to the field and demonstrates how to think critically about the power and influence of media in our daily lives.Presents an engaging and comprehensive introduction to a broad range of critical approaches to the field written in an accessible wayFeatures a new chapter on sociological analysis that reveals how audiences use media in their everyday lives to manage social roles, relationships, and contextsOffers substantial updates to examples used in the book
Description / Table of Contents:
Critical Media Studies: An Introduction; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introducing Critical Media Studies; How We Know What We Know; Categorizing Mass Media; Living in Postmodernity; Why Study the Media?; Doing Critical Media Studies; Key Critical Perspectives; Part I Media Industries: Marxist, Organizational, and Pragmatic Perspectives; 2 Marxist Analysis; Marxist Theory: an Overview; Patterns of Media Ownership; Strategies of Profit Maximization; Advertising; Consequences of Ownership Patterns and Profit Maximization; Conclusion; 3 Organizational Analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
Organizational Theory: an OverviewThe News Media: an In-Depth Case Study; Conclusion; 4 Pragmatic Analysis; Pragmatism: an Overview; A Pragmatic Approach to the Government Regulation of Media; Issues in the Regulation of American Media; Violence in the Media: a Closer Look at Pragmatic Regulation; Conclusion; Part II Media Messages: Rhetorical, Cultural, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives; 5 Rhetorical Analysis; Rhetoric: an Overview; Theories of the Sign; Roland Barthes (1915-1980); Texts and Rhetorical Structures; The Material Turn: Affect and Aesthetics; Conclusion
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6 Cultural AnalysisCultural Theory: an Overview; The Functions of Ideology; Ideological Processes: Myth, Doxa, and Hegemony; Cultural Studies: History, Theory, and Methodology; Ideology and Media Representations of Class; Media, Ideology, and Representations of Race and Ethnicity; Conclusion; 7 Psychoanalytic Analysis; Psychoanalytic Theory: an Overview; Freudian Development; Lacanian Development; Psychoanalytic Studies of Media; Contemporary Scholarship in Psychoanalytic Analysis; Conclusion; 8 Feminist Analysis; Feminism: an Overview; Stereotyping in American Media
Description / Table of Contents:
Gendered Stereotypes in American MediaPostfeminism and Media Representation; Consequences of Sexist Media Representation; Conclusion; 9 Queer Analysis; Queer Theory: an Overview; Queerness and Visibility I: Sexual Stereotypes in American Media; Queerness and Visibility II: the Problems with "Positive" Representation; Consequences of Heteronormative Media Representations; Queerness and Invisibility: Camp and the Fourth Persona; The Fourth Persona and the "Textual Wink"; Conclusion; Part III Media Audiences: Reception, Sociological, Erotic, and Ecological Perspectives; 10 Reception Analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
Reception Theory: an OverviewEncoding/Decoding: Stuart Hall; Polysemy: John Fiske, Celeste Condit, Leah Ceccarelli; Interpretive Communities: Stanley Fish; Ethnographic Research and Memory; Conclusion; 11 Sociological Analysis; Sociological Theory: an Overview; Dramaturgy; Frame Analysis; Equipment for Living; Conclusion; 12 Erotic Analysis; Theories of Pleasure: an Overview; Transgressive Texts; Transgressive Practices; Reflections on Transgression; Conclusion; 13 Ecological Analysis; Medium Theory: an Overview; Charting the Third Wave; Conclusion; 14 Conclusion: the Partial Pachyderm
Description / Table of Contents:
Critical Media Studies: an Overview
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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