| Descript |
455p., 235 x 159mm, Facsimiles, paperback |
| Note |
Media studies is a rapidly expanding area which has a broad cross-disciplinary appeal. This reader aims to cover the whole spectrum of media studies in one volume and combines contributions from academics, policy makers and practitioners. |
| Contents |
Part 1 "What are the media?" introduction to "what are the media?", Adam Briggs, Paul Cobley; comics: Eurocomics - "9th art" or misfit lit? Roger Sabin; publishing: European publishing - a neglected topic, David Saunders; advertising and marketing: Advertising and the new media environment, Sean Brierley; news agencies: News agency in Europe, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Terhi Rantanen; public relations and journalism: Promotional strategies and media power? David Miller; newspapers and the press: Newspapers - beyond political economy, James Curran; magazines: Magazines - the bulging bookstores, Brian Braithwaite; radio: Public service, commercialism and the paradox of choice, Andrew Crisell; television: Contemporary television - a framework for analysis, Richard Paterson; european cinema: Cinema in Europe, anne Jackel; pop music: Marketing and mediating popular music - the European popular music industry, Roy Shuker; technology: New technologies and the media, Brian McNair. Part 2 'Outside' the media: introduction to 'outside' the media, Adam Briggs, Paul Cobley; economics: The economics of the media, Patrick Barwise, David Gordon; policy: Media policy,Nicholas Garnham; models of media institutions: Media institutions in Europe, Ralph Negrine; approaches: Why study the media form? John Corner; audience feedback: administrative research of audiences, Sue Stoessl; effects: Media effects - the continuing controversy, Guy Cumberbatch. Part 3 In the media: introduction to 'in the media', Adam Briggs, Paul Cobley; sexuality: tracing desires - sexuality and media texts, Andy Medhurst; gender: From Pamela Anderson to Erasmus - women, men and representation, Liesbet van Zoonen, Irene Costera Meijer; race and ethnicity: The construction of black and Asian ethnicities in British film and television, Sarita Malik; youth: The good, the bad and the ugly - postwar media representations of youth, Bill Osgerby; disability: Feeble monsters - 'making up' disabled people, Jessica Evans; nationality: National identity and the media, Andrew Higson; sport: Sport as real life - media sport and culture, Neil Blain, raymond Boyle; news production: News values, Jerry Palmer; parliamentary politics: the media and politics, Ivor Gaber; news photography: The direct appeal to the eye? - photography and the 20th century press, Pat Holland; pornography and censorship: Sex and censoriousness - pornography and censorship in Britain, Linda Ruth Williams. |
| Subject |
Multimedia
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Communications
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Computing
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| Alt Author |
Cobley, Paul
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| ISBN |
0582277981 |
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