Media studies : a reader / edited by Paul Marris and Sue Thornham
By: Marris, Paul
Contributor(s): Thornham, SuePublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2000Edition: 2nd edDescription: 869 p. 25 cm001: 7879ISBN: 0814756476Subject(s): Mass media | Media | CommunicationDDC classification: 302.23 MAR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Media Studies: A Reader provides a thorough introduction to the full range of theoretical perspectives on the mass media from the past thirty years. Ranging from the arguments between the American mass communication tradition and the Europe-centered Frankfurt School of the 1940s, to the analyses of communication technologies by Marshall McLuhan and Raymond Williams in the 1960s, Media Studies: A Reader maps the mass media field, its varied and often conflicting histories, and its current debates.
Sixty-five articles provide comprehensive coverage of all the main theorists and approaches. The first half, Studying the Media, explores in detail three core elements of media studies: production and regulation of mass media; media texts; and reception and consumption of media. The second half brings together concrete examples of how theoretical debates can be realized in a series of case studies on soap operas, the news, and advertising.
A general introduction and introductions to each section summarize and contextualize the debates.
Contributors include: Theodor W. Adorno, Marshal McLuhan, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Annette Kuhn, Jürgen Habermas, John Fiske, Richard Dyer, Niki Strange, Danae Clark, Angela McRobbie, Bill Nichols, Lynne Joyrich, David Morley, Ien Ang, Janice Radway, Henry Jenkins, Tania Modleski, Anne McClintock, Sadie Plant.
Includes index and bibliography
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction: About This Reader (p. xii)
- Part 1 Studying the Media
- Section 1 The Media and Social Power
- Introduction (p. 5)
- 1 'Mass Communication, Popular Taste and Organized Social Action' (p. 18)
- 2 'Culture Industry Reconsidered' (p. 31)
- 3 'The Medium is the Message' (p. 38)
- 4 '"Mass Communication" and "Minority Culture"' (p. 44)
- 5 'Encoding/Decoding' (p. 51)
- 6 'The Power of the Image' (p. 62)
- 7 'Constituents of a Theory of the Media' (p. 68)
- 8 'The Public Sphere' (p. 92)
- 9 'The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media' (p. 99)
- Further Reading (p. 109)
- Section 2 Production
- Introduction (p. 115)
- 10 'Public Service Broadcasting The History of a Concept' (p. 120)
- 11 'On the Cultural Industries' (p. 135)
- 12 'Concentration and Ownership in the Era of Privatization' (p. 142)
- 13 'Producers in British Television' (p. 156)
- 14 'New Patterns in Global Television' (p. 170)
- Further Reading (p. 190)
- Section 3 Text
- 1. Textual Structures
- Introduction (p. 195)
- 15 'Content Analysis in Communication Research' (p. 200)
- 16 'Radio Signs' (p. 210)
- 17 'The Codes of Television' (p. 220)
- 18 'Programming as Sequence or Flow' (p. 231)
- 19 'Broadcast TV Narration' (p. 238)
- 20 'The Role of Stereotypes' (p. 245)
- 21 'Perform, Educate, Entertain: Ingredients of the Cookery Programme Genre' (p. 252)
- Further Reading (p. 265)
- 2. Ideology and Discourse
- Introduction (p. 267)
- 22 'Racist Ideologies and the Media' (p. 271)
- 23 'Fictions and Ideologies: The Case of Situation Comedy' (p. 283)
- 24 'Televised Chat and the Synthetic Personality' (p. 297)
- 25 'Critical Analysis of Media Discourse' (p. 308)
- Further Reading (p. 326)
- 3. Feminist Readings
- Introduction (p. 330)
- 26 'Survival Skills and Daydreams' (p. 334)
- 27 'Cagney and Lacey: Feminist Strategies of Detection' (p. 341)
- 28 'Empowering Women? The Oprah Winfrey Show' (p. 354)
- Further Reading (p. 368)
- 4. Postmodern Media
- Introduction (p. 371)
- 29 'Television and Postmodernism' (p. 375)
- 30 'Postmodernism and Popular Culture' (p. 385)
- 31 'Reality TV and Social Perversion' (p. 393)
- 32 'Critical and Textual Hypermasculinity' (p. 404)
- Further Reading (p. 416)
- Section 4 Reception
- 1. From 'Effects' to 'Uses'
- Introduction (p. 421)
- 33 'Desensitization, Violence and the Media' (p. 425)
- 34 'On the Social Effects of Television' (p. 433)
- 35 'The Television Audience: A Revised Perspective' (p. 438)
- 36 'Uses and Gratifications Research: A Critique' (p. 455)
- Further Reading (p. 464)
- 2. The Politics of Reading
- Introduction (p. 467)
- 37 'Cultural Transformations: The Politics of Resistance' (p. 471)
- 38 'Wanted: Audiences. On the Politics of Empirical Audience Studies' (p. 482)
- 39 'Reading the Romance' (p. 492)
- 40 'The Young and the Restless in Trinidad: A Case of the Local and the Global in Mass Consumption' (p. 503)
- Further Reading (p. 516)
- 3. Beyond Hegemony?
- Introduction (p. 520)
- 41 'Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home' (p. 524)
- 42 'Moments of Television: Neither the Text nor the Audience' (p. 536)
- 43 '"Strangers No More, We Sing": Filking and the Social Construction of the Science Fiction Fan Community' (p. 547)
- 44 'Media, Meaning and Everyday Life' (p. 557)
- Further Reading (p. 565)
- Part 2 Case Studies
- Section 5 Soap Opera
- Introduction (p. 571)
- 45 'EastEnders: Creating the Audience' (p. 574)
- 46 'The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas' (p. 583)
- 47 'Crossroads: Notes on Soap Opera' (p. 596)
- 48 'Everything Stops for Crossroads: Watching with the Audience' (p. 603)
- 49 'Sylvania Waters and the Spectacular Exploding Family' (p. 611)
- Further Reading (p. 621)
- Section 6 News
- Introduction (p. 627)
- 50 'News Values and News Production' (p. 632)
- 51 John Clarke and Brian Roberts 'The Social Production of News' (p. 645)
- 52 'Home Help for Populist Politics: Relational Aspects of TV News' (p. 653)
- 53 'Woman as Sign in Television News' (p. 663)
- 54 'The Globalization of Electronic Journalism' (p. 676)
- 55 'News Content and Audience Belief' (p. 687)
- Further Reading (p. 694)
- Section 7 Advertising
- Introduction (p. 699)
- 56 'Advertising: The Magic System' (p. 704)
- 57 'The Impact of Advertising on the British Mass Media' (p. 710)
- 58 'Advertising, Magazine Culture, and the "New Man"' (p. 727)
- 59 'Handling Sex' (p. 738)
- 60 'Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising' (p. 751)
- 61 'Discriminating or Duped? Young People as consumers of Advertising/Art' (p. 766)
- Further Reading (p. 775)
- Section 8 New Media
- Introduction (p. 781)
- 62 'How Are Media Born?' (p. 786)
- 63 'Worldwide Wedge: Division and Contradiction in the Global Information Infrastructure' (p. 802)
- 64 'New Technologies and Domestic Consumption' (p. 816)
- 65 'On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations' (p. 835)
- Further Reading (p. 849)
- Acknowledgements (p. 851)
- Names Index (p. 857)
- Subject Index (p. 859)
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