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Media Studies: A Reader - Softcover

Paul-marris

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Synopsis

This textbook contains all of the classic texts which reflect the development of Media Studies in the UK and beyond. Comprehensive in coverage, it provides the essential readings in one volume, combining a broad selection of texts with clearly written and relevant commentaries to each section.

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About the Author

Paul Marris is Programme Leader for Art, Design & Media, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. Sue Thornham is Professor of Media and Film at the University of Sussex.

Review

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.

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