Media Studies Books

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41. A2 Media Studies

    The Essential Introduction for WJEC

    By Antony Bateman, Peter Bennett, Sarah Casey Benyahia, Peter Wall

    Series: Essentials

    Developing key topics in depth and introducing students to the notion of independent study, this full colour, highly illustrated textbook is designed to support students through the transition from AS to A2 and is the perfect guide for the new WJEC A2 Media Studies syllabus. Individual chapters,...

    Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
42. Westerns

    By John White

    Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks

    It is a common assertion that the history of America is written in its Westerns, but how true is this? In this guidebook John White discusses the evolution of the Western through history and looks at theoretical and critical approaches to Westerns such as genre analysis, semiotics,...

    Published November 24th 2010 by Routledge
43. A2 Media Studies

    The Essential Introduction for AQA, 2nd Edition

    By Antony Bateman, Peter Bennett, Sarah Casey Benyahia, Jacqui Shirley, Peter Wall

    Series: Essentials

    Developing key topics in depth and introducing students to the notion of independent study, this full colour, highly illustrated textbook is designed to support students through the transition from AS to A2 and is the perfect guide for the new AQA A2 Media Studies syllabus. Individual chapters,...

    Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
44. Neo-Feminist Cinema

    Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture

    By Hilary Radner

    What lies behind current feminist discontent with contemporary cinema? Through a combination of cultural and industry analysis, Hilary Radner’s Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture shows how the needs of conglomerate Hollywood have encouraged an emphasis on...

    Published October 24th 2010 by Routledge
45. The American Journalism History Reader

    Edited by Bonnie S. Brennen, Hanno Hardt

    The American Journalism History Reader presents important primary texts—news articles and essays about journalism from all stages of the history of the American press—alongside key works of journalism history and criticism. The volume aims to place journalism history in its theoretical context, to...

    Published October 18th 2010 by Routledge
46. Arnheim for Film and Media Studies

    Edited by Scott Higgins

    Series: AFI Film Readers

    Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a pioneering figure in film studies, best known for his landmark book on silent cinema Film as Art. He ultimately became more famous as a scholar in the fields of art and art history, largely abandoning his theoretical work on cinema. However, his later aesthetic...

    Published September 26th 2010 by Routledge
47. Flow TV

    Television in the Age of Media Convergence

    Edited by Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Thomas Payne, Allison Perlman, Bryan Sebok

    From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text, then convergence destabilizes the notion of television as a discrete object. Flow TV examines...

    Published September 13th 2010 by Routledge
48. Interrogating Trauma

    Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media

    Edited by Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso

    Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...

    Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge
49. Television and New Media

    Must-Click TV

    By Jennifer Gillan

    We watch TV on computers, phones, and other mobile devices; television is now online as much as it is "on air." Television and New Media introduces readers to the ways that new media technologies have transformed contemporary broadcast television production, scheduling, distribution, and reception...

    Published August 29th 2010 by Routledge
50. Ordinary Lives

    Studies in the Everyday

    By Ben Highmore

    This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to...

    Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge