Media Studies by Paul-Marris
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.
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.
Paul Marris is Programme Leader for Art, Design & Media, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. Sue Thornham is emerita Professor of Film and Media at the University of Sussex. She is author of Passionate Detachments (1997), Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies (2001), Approaches to TV Drama (2004, with Tony Purvis), Women, Feminism and Media (2007), What if I Had Been the Hero? Investigating Women’s Filmmaking (2012) and Spaces of Women’s Cinema (2019). She is also author of numerous articles on feminist theory and film and television texts, and editor of three key collections, Feminist Film Theory: A Reader (1999), Media Studies: A Reader (3rd edition, 2009) and Film and Gender (2014).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748612062 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748612068 |
| Title | Media Studies |
| Author | Paul Marris |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 1999-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 896 |
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