| Description |
ix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Shoulders to Stand On -- Pt. I. The Columbia School. 1. Critical Research at Columbia: Lazarsfeld's and Merton's "Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action" / Peter Simonson and Gabriel Weimann. 2. Herzog's "On Borrowed Experience": Its Place in the Debate over the Active Audience / Tamar Liebes -- Pt. II. The Frankfurt School. 3. The Subtlety of Horkheimer and Adorno: Reading "The Culture Industry" / John Durham Peters. 4. Benjamin Contextualized: On "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" / Paddy Scannell. 5. Redeeming Consumption: On Lowenthal's "The Triumph of the Mass Idols" / Eva Illouz -- Pt. III. The Chicago School. 6. Community and Pluralism in Wirth's "Consensus and Mass Communication" / Eric W. Rothenbuhler. 7. The Audience is a Crowd, the Crowd is a Public: Latter-Day Thoughts on Lang and Lang's "MacArthur Day in Chicago" / Elihu Katz and Daniel Dayan. 8. Towards the Virtual Encounter: Horton's and Wohl's "Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction" / Don Handelman -- Pt. IV. The Toronto School. 9. Harold Adams Innis and his Bias of Communication / Menahem Blondheim. 10. Canonic Anti-Text: Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media / Joshua Meyrowitz -- Pt. V. British Cultural Studies. 11. Retroactive Enrichment: Raymond William's Culture and Society / John Durham Peters. 12. Canonization Achieved? Stuart Hall's "Encoding/Decoding" / Michael Gurevitch and Paddy Scannell. 13. Afterthoughts on Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure" in the Age of Cultural Studies / Yosefa Loshitzky. Chahon -- Pt. V. c0 |
| Summary |
Media studies is more than 50 years old, and the authors in this text offer their own candidate texts for canonization. Each essay presents a critical reading of one of these classics and debates its candidacy. The texts are summarized, analysed and re-examined for their contemporary relevance |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Research -- Methodology.
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Mass media -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Katz, Elihu, 1926-
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| LC no. |
2002006727 |
| ISBN |
0745629334 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0745629342 paperback alkaline paper |
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