Making sense of media : key texts in media and cultural studies

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Author:

Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-

ISBN:

9781405120166

9781405120173

Personal Author:

Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-

Publication Information:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Physical Description:

x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

Introduction: The Media in Our Lives -- Course in General Linguistics / In Practice: King Andrew the First -- Mythologies / In Practice: A Semiotic Analysis of a Sea Shell -- Metaphors We Live By / In Practice: Love is a Game -- Poetics / In Practice: Theories on Comedy -- Introduction to Poetics / In Practice: What Happens in Hamlet -- Morphology of the Folktale / In Practice: Understanding Genres -- Reading the Romance / In Practice: Write Your Own Romance Novel -- Hamlet on the Holodeck / In Practice: Hypotheses on Pac-Man and Video Games -- The Dialogic Imagination / In Practice: Parody and Laughter -- Semiotics of Cinema / In Practice: The "1984" Macintosh Commercial -- Film Form / In Practice: Rashomontage -- Marxism and Literature / In Practice: The Prisoner and "The General" -- Everyday Life in the Modern World / In Practice: Cells and Terror -- The Practice of Everyday Life / In Practice: Resistance Through Ridicule -- Understanding Media / In Practice: The Financial Times -- Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism / In Practice: A Postmodern Perspective on Madonna -- Cultural Theory / In Practice: Political Cultures and Popular Culture.

Abstract:

"Making Sense of Media is an introduction that helps readers understand mass media and its texts. Written for the beginning student in media studies who wishes to become acquainted with the ideas of some of the seminal figures in this field, this volume provides useful insights into nineteen books."--Jacket.

Subject Term:

Mass media.

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Making Sense of Media is a lively and accessible text that helps readers understand mass media and the texts they carry. Designed expressly for those interested in gaining a solid understanding of the media and how they work, it is an indispensable book.
Offers a lively, accessible, and concise textbook to help readers understand mass media and their texts Covers seminal figures, concepts and scholarship in mass media studies, including Vladimir Propp, Mikhail Bakhtin, Raymond Williams, Fredric Jameson, and Stuart Hall Explores the ideas found in nineteen significant books that will provide useful insights and concepts for anyone interested in the study of the media Features chapter-by-chapter short articles by the author, that address an idea or theory in the particular book being discussed Includes charts, boxes features, exercises, and illustrations to round out analyses and engage the beginning student