The Craft of Criticism

Critical Media Studies in Practice
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-15650-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 742 g

With contributions from 35 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies.

Fully revised and updated throughout, the chapters in this second edition address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy studies, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches, like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection, which also addresses digital technologies and new research tools in such areas as software studies, gaming, and social media. Each chapter includes an intellectual history of a particular method or approach, a discussion of why and how it was used to study a particular medium or media, relevant examples of influential work in the area, and an in-depth review of a case study drawn from the author’s own research.

Together, the chapters in this collection give media scholars and critics a complete toolbox of essential critical media studies methodologies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kackman, Michael

Kearney, Mary Celeste

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface – Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney

Acknowledgements

Contributor Biographies

Foreword – Michele Hilmes

Introduction, or How to Cook an Artichoke – Mary Celeste Kearney

1 Ideology – Ron Becker

2 Discourse – Rosalind Gill

3 Narrative – Jason Mittell

4 Genre - Amanda Ann Klein

5 Authorship and Auteurism – Cynthia Chris

6 Documentary and Unscripted Media – Daniel Marcus

7 History and Historiography - Michael Kackman

8 Visual Style – Jeremy G. Butler

9 Acting and Performance – Cynthia Baron

10 Representation - Mary Beltrán

11 Psychoanalytic Criticism - Todd McGowan

12 Cognitivism – Ted Nannicelli

13 Ethnography - Jessica Lingel and Mary L. Gray

14 Audiences - Matt Hills

15 Political Economy - Patrick Burkart

16 Media Policy - Bill Kirkpatrick

17 Production - Timothy Havens

18 National/Transnational/Global - Shanti Kumar

19 Cultural Geography - Victoria E. Johnson

20 Intertexts and Paratexts - Jonathan Gray

21 Stardom and Celebrity - Suzanne Leonard and Diane Negra

22 Sound – Jacob Smith and Neil Verma

23 Popular Music - Norma Coates

24 Sports Media – Evan Brody and Jennifer McClearen

25 Games and Gaming – Ashlee Bird and Matthew Thomas Payne

26 New Media - Madhavi Mallapragada

27 Social Media – Alexander Cho

28 Software - Eric Freedman

29 Digital Humanities – Miriam Posner (available online: www.routledge.com/ 9781032156507)

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Kackman is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture (2005) and co-editor of Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (2010). His research centers on the history and historiography of American television, with particular attention to the shifting relationships between television and U.S. nationhood.

Mary Celeste Kearney is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media and Gender and Rock and the editor of The Gender and Media Reader as well as two volumes of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture. She edits the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media. Her current book project focuses on the first wave of U.S. teen-girl entertainment.