| Description |
xiv, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Issues in cultural and media studies |
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Issues in cultural and media studies.
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| Contents |
1. Media institutions : key areas and their implications for understanding media -- 2. Media texts : features and deconstructions -- 3. Audiences and effects : defining audiences and exploring their relationship with texts -- 4. The media and violence : questioning violence : problems with measuring effects -- 5. Women's magazines : manufacturing a gendered space : questions of guilt and pleasure -- 6. Popular music : questioning the popular, questioning control, questioning the global -- 7. Approaches to film : the missing British film industry : audiences, gazing and meanings -- 8. The media and new technology : the effects and implications of technologies for the media and their consumption -- 9. Advertising : its relationship with the media audience : the consequences for society and culture -- 10. Television soaps : the question of the gendered audience : the nature of soap operas : the effects of soaps on TV drama -- 11. News : different kinds of news : constructing the world -- 12. Sport and representation : media making meanings about sport : sport making meanings about ideology, race and gender -- 13. Globalization and the media : questions of power and of cultural exchange |
| Summary |
"This introductory text provides a wide-ranging perspective on the media. Written by an experienced author and lecturer, it covers the core theory and discussion points surrounding the media. The book examines a range of critical positions and provides an informed view of the relationships between media and society." "Essential reading for students in media studies, cultural studies, and courses with a media interest, such as sociology, politics and communication."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Ebooks Corporation.
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| LC no. |
2007296970 |
| ISBN |
0335215890 |
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0335208800 : |
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