Media Studies: A Reader (Paperback)

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Comprehensive and well-produced. ! The production of this second edition of Media Studies: A Reader is a welcomed and positive contribution to the study, understanding and teaching of media studies. -- Rita Lago, University of Stirling SCOPE: An Online Journal of Film Studies This is an excellent book which cuts across many of our modules. I would suggest they buy this in the first year and use it for the duration of the degree. -- Clare Horrocks, Liverpool John Moores University It is excellent. -- Paul Jones, Warrington Collegiate Institute In its useful 869 pages, areas covered are issues of social power; cultural media production; textual analysis; feminism; postmodernism; reception theory; active audiences; small-scale alternative media production; and case studies in soaps, news, advertising and new media technologies. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory Comprehensive and well-produced. ! The production of this second edition of Media Studies: A Reader is a welcomed and positive contribution to the study, understanding and teaching of media studies. This is an excellent book which cuts across many of our modules. I would suggest they buy this in the first year and use it for the duration of the degree. It is excellent. In its useful 869 pages, areas covered are issues of social power; cultural media production; textual analysis; feminism; postmodernism; reception theory; active audiences; small-scale alternative media production; and case studies in soaps, news, advertising and new media technologies. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Surveys theoretical perspectives on the mass media over the past thirty years. From statements by Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard to recent work by Ien Ang and Ann Gray, sections discuss the production and regulation of the mass media; the media text; and the reception and consumption of the media. Complete with an introduction and a guide to further reading.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 527 pages
• Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0748607781
• ISBN-13: 978-0748607785
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,815,522 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars a very good reader, February 27, 2006

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This review is from: Media Studies: A Reader - 2nd Edition (Paperback)

This is a well chosen and very well edited selection. It gives short 4-5 page samples of some of the most valuable things that have been written on media in the past fifty years. Compared to its 1997 predecessor, the 2000 American edition tones down the focus on British media, and includes new excerpts by Fairclough, Radway and a whole new section on 'New Media'. The emphasis in the new volume is on the present rather than on the history of media studies. The bad news is that things had to be cut to make space for the new material. Too bad that two illuminating pieces by Judith Williamson (from Decoding Advertisements) and Alan Tomlinson (from Consumption, Identity, and Style) were left out.