Ott / Mack Critical Media Studies

An Introduction
2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-55403-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, E-Book

Fully revised to reflect today's media environment, this newedition of Critical Media Studies offers students acomprehensive introduction to the field and demonstrates how tothink critically about the power and influence of media in ourdaily lives.
* Presents an engaging and comprehensive introduction to a broadrange of critical approaches to the field written in an accessibleway
* Features a new chapter on sociological analysis that revealshow audiences use media in their everyday lives to manage socialroles, relationships, and contexts
* Offers substantial updates to examples used in the book toreflect contemporary industry standards, textual forms, andaudience behaviors
* Delivers up-to-date media references that resonate withtoday's undergraduates
* Updated with more global examples for broader appeal
* Enhanced online resources, including PowerPoint slides, testbank, study guides and sample assignments, available uponpublication at www.wiley.com/go/criticalmediastudies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ott, Brian L.

Mack, Robert L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vi
1 Introducing Critical Media Studies 1
Part I Media Industries: Marxist, Organizational, and Pragmatic Perspectives 21
2 Marxist Analysis 23
3 Organizational Analysis 56
4 Pragmatic Analysis 81
Part II Media Messages: Rhetorical, Cultural, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives 107
5 Rhetorical Analysis 109
6 Cultural Analysis 134
7 Psychoanalytic Analysis 162
8 Feminist Analysis 193
9 Queer Analysis 214
Part III Media Audiences: Reception, Sociological, Erotic, and Ecological Perspectives 243
10 Reception Analysis 245
11 Sociological Analysis 266
12 Erotic Analysis 285
13 Ecological Analysis 312
14 Conclusion: the Partial Pachyderm 335
Appendix: Sample Student Essays 351
Glossary 375
Index 382

Über Autor(innen)

Brian L. Ott is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age (Wiley Blackwell, 2007) and co-editor of It's Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era (2008).
Robert L. Mack is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His writing has appeared in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and The Journal of GLBT Family Studies.