Media studies : a reader /
This book introduces the range of theoretical perspectives on the mass media over the past 30 years. It contains more than 50 readings from influential figures, with a particular emphasis on newspapers, TV and radio
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
1999
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 2 IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE
- 22. Racist ideologies and the media / Stuart Hall
- 23. Fictions and ideologies : the case of situation comedy / Janes Woollacott
- 24. Televised chat and the synthetic personality / Andrew Tolson
- 25. Critical analysis of media discourse / Norman Fairclough
- 2 THE POLITICS OF READING
- 37. Cultural transformations : the politics of resistance / David Morley
- 38. Wanted : audiences. On the politics of empirical audience studies / Ien Ang
- 39. Reading the romance / Janice Radway
- 40. The young and the restless in Trinidad : a case of the local and the global in mass consumption / Daniel Miller
- 3 BEYOND HEGEMONY?
- 41. Behind closed doors : video recorders in the home / Ann Gray
- 42. Moments of television : neither the text nor the audience / John Fiske
- 43. Strangers no more, we sing : filking and the social construction of the science fiction fan community / Henry Jenkins
- 44. Media, meaning and everyday life / Joke Hermes
- 3 FEMINIST READINGS
- 26. Survival skills and daydreams / Janice Winship
- 27. 'Cagney & Lacey' : feminist strategies of detection / Danae Clark
- 28. Empowering women? : the Oprah Winfrey Show
- 4 POSTMODERN MEDIA
- 29. Television and postmodernism / Jim Collins
- 30. Postmodernism and popular culture / Angela McRobbie
- 31. Reality TV and social perversion / Bill Nichols
- 32. Critical and textual hypermasculinity / Lynne Joyrich
- PT. ONE : STUDYING THE MEDIA
- SECTION 1: THE MEDIA AND SOCIAL POWER
- 1 Mass communication, popular taste and organized social action / Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton - 2. Culture industry reconsidered / Theodor W. Adorno - 3. The medium is the message / Marshal McLuhan - 4. Mass communication and 'minority culture' / Raymond Williams - 5. Encoding / decoding / Stuart Hall - 6. The power of the image / Annette Kuhn - 7. Constituents of a theory of the media / Hans Magnus Enzensberger - 8. The public sphere / Jürgen Habermas - 9. The masses : the implosion of the social in the media / Jean Baudrillard
- SECTION 2: PRODUCTION
- 10 Public service broadcasting : the history of a concept / Paddy Scannell
- . 11. On the cultural industries / Nicholas Barnham
- 12. Concentration and ownership in the era of privatization / Graham Murdock
- 13. Producers in British television / Jeremy Tunstall
- 14. New patterns in global television / John Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka, Stuart Cunningham
- SECTION 3: TEXT
- 1 TEXTUAL STRUCTURES
- 15. Content analysis in communication research / Bernard Berelson
- 16. Radio signs / Andrew Crisell
- 17. The codes of television / John Fiske
- 18. Programming as sequence or flow / Raymond Williams
- 19. Broadcast TV narration / John Ellis
- 20. The role of stereotypes / Richard Dyer
- 21. Perform, educate, entertain : ingredients of the cookery programme genre / Niki Strange
- SECTION 4: RECEPTION
- 1 FROM 'EFFECTS' TO 'USES'
- 33. Desensitization, violence and the media / Hans Eysenck and D.K.B. Bias
- 34. On the social effects of television / James D. Halloran
- 35. The television audience : a revised perspective / Denis McQuail, Jay B. Blumler and J.R. Brown
- 36. Uses and gratifications research : a critique / Philip Elliott
- SECTION 6: NEWS
- 50 News values and news production / Peter Golding and Philip Elliott
- 51. The social production of news / Stuart Hall [and others]
- 52. Home help for populist politics : relational aspects of TV news / John Hartley
- 53. Women as sign in television news / Lana F. Rakow and Kimberlie Kranich
- 54. he globalization of electronic journalism / Michael Burevitch
- 55. News content and audience belief / Greg Philo
- SECTION 7: ADVERTISING :
- 56 Advertising : the magic system / Raymond Williams
- 57. The impact of advertising on the British mass media / James Curran
- 58. Advertising, magazine culture and the 'New Man' / Sean Nixon
- 59. Handling sex / Janice Winship
- 60. Soft-soaping empire : commodity racism and imperial advertising / Anne McClintock
- 61. Discriminating or duped? : young people as consumers of advertising / art / Mica Nava and Orson Nava
- SECTION 8: NEW MEDIA
- 62 How are media born? / Brian Winston
- 63. Worldwide wedge : division and contradiction in the global information infrastructure / Peter Golding
- 64. New technologies and domestic consumption / Eric Hirsch
- 65. On the matrix : cyberfeminist simulations / Sadie Plant.
- pt. TWO : CASE STUDIES
- SECTION 5: SOAP OPERA
- 45 EastEnders : creating the audience / David Buckingham
- 46. The search for tomorrow in today's soap operas / Tania Modleski
- 47. Crossroads : notes on soap opera / Charlotte Brunsdon
- 48. Everything stops for Crossroads : watching with the audience / Dorothy Hobson
- 49. Sylvania Waters and the spectacular exploding family / John Stratton and Ien Ang