Key Themes in Media Theory.
Dan. Laughey
Bok Engelsk 1989 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , c1989
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (249 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | "Supplement to Philosophy 1988". - Front cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 What is media theory? -- What are media? -- What is theory? -- What is media theory? -- How to use this book -- Chapter 2 Behaviourism and media effects -- Introduction -- Lasswell's chain of communication and propaganda technique -- Wertham: Seduction of the Innocent -- Cantril: The Invasion from Mars -- Cultivation theory -- Agenda-setting and social functions of media -- Two-step flow and the phenomenistic approach -- Uses and gratifications theory -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 3 Modernity and medium theory -- Introduction -- Innis: The Bias of Communication -- McLuhan: the medium is the message -- Benjamin: art and mechanical reproduction -- The Leavises and the Lynds -- Riesman and Hoggart: other-directed character and its uses of literacy -- Williams: technology and cultural form -- Habermas: media and the public sphere -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4 Structuralism and semiotics -- Introduction -- Saussure and Barthes: language and myth -- Hall: Encoding/Decoding, ideology and hegemony -- Glasgow Media Group: the ideology of news -- Williamson: the ideology of ads -- Morley: the Nationwide audience -- Hebdige: Subculture -- Foucault: discourse and disciplinary society -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 5 Interactionism and structuration -- Introduction -- Goffman: self-presentation -- Meyrowitz: No Sense of Place -- Horton and Wohl: personae and para-social interaction -- Thompson: mediated quasi-interaction -- Labelling theory and moral panics -- Giddens: structuration theory -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 6 Feminisms and gender -- Introduction -- Radical feminism -- Mulvey: the male gaze -- Modleski and Radway: mass-produced fantasies for women.. - Ang: pleasure and the ideology of mass culture -- Butler: Gender Trouble -- Postfeminism and the third wave -- Masculinity in crisis -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 7 Political economy and postcolonial theory -- Introduction -- Adorno: culture industry or cultural industries? -- Media and cultural imperialism -- Herman and Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent -- Critical political economy -- Said: Orientalism -- 'The postcolonial' and race -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 8 Postmodernity and the information society -- Introduction -- Baudrillard: hyperreality and simulation -- Boorstin and Debord: the image and the spectacle -- Jameson: pastiche and intertextuality -- Lyotard: the decline of metanarratives -- The information society -- Ritzer: McDonaldization -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 9 Consumerism and everyday life -- Introduction -- Fiske: consumer resistance -- De Certeau: everyday tactics -- Textual poachers and fandom -- Silverstone: the cycle of consumption and mediated experience -- The diffused audience and consumer authority -- Bourdieu: the habitus and field theory -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 10 Debating media theory -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.. - This book provides a thorough and critical introducation to the key theories of media studies. Using up-to-date case studies, it discusses a broad range of themes, issues and perspectives that inform our understanding of media production and consumption in all their cultural forms.
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| ISBN | 0521375797
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