Media/cultural studies : critical approaches
/ Media cultural studies
edited by Rhonda Hammer & Douglas Kellner.
- New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
- xlvii, 644 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
From Communications and Media Studies Through Cultural Studies: An Introduction and Overview — Toward a Critical Media/Cultural Studies — Cultural Studies: What’s in a Name? (One More Time) — Stuart Hall on Representation and Ideology — A Propaganda Model — How Producers “Theorize”: Shoot-outs, Bake-offs, and Speed-Dating — Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of Higher Education — The Power of New Media Networks — Young Children and Critical Media Literacy — Teaching Popular Music — “This Won’t Be on the Final”: Reflections on Teaching Critical Media Literacy — As Seen on TV or Was That My Phone?: ‘New’ Media Literacy — Digital Tools for Collecting, Connecting, Constructing, Responding to, Creating, and Conducting Media Ethnographies of Audience Use of Media Texts — Children and the Media: Alternative Histories — Capital, Ray Kroc, and McDonald’s: The World’s Lovin’ It — Barbie: The Bitch Still Has Everything — The Spectacle of Reform: Vulture Culture, Youth, and Television — Gideon Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2012: Growing Up Gay Today — Advertising, Gender and Sex: What’s Wrong with a Little Objectification? — The Magical World of Daytime Soap Operas — Social Class and Entertainment Television: What’s So Real about Reality TV? — African American and Jewish Mothers/Wives on Television: Persistent Stereotypes — Successful, Single and “Othered”: The Media and the “Plight” of Single Black Women — The Rhetoric of Pleasure and Danger in Feminist Television Studies — Post-Feminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime — Women in Traffic: L.A. Autobiography — “Waas Sappening?”: Narrative Structure and Iconography in Born in East L.A. Media — Model Minority/Honorable Eunuch: The Dual Image of Asian American Men in the Media and Everyday Perception — “Politics Is a Contact Sport”: Media, Sports Metaphors and Presidential Masculinity — The Uses of Disenchantment in New Media Pedagogy: Teaching for Remediation and Reconfiguration — Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert Laden — “Doing Something That Matters”: Children’s Culture, Video Games, and the Politics of Representation — Critical Perspectives on Social Network Sites — YouTube, Politics, and Pedagogy: Some Critical Reflections.
This anthology is designed to assist teachers and students in learning how to better understand and interpret our common culture and everyday life. With a focus on contemporary media, consumer, and digital culture, this book combines classic and original writings by both leading and rising scholars in the field. The chapters present key theories, concepts, and methodologies of critical cultural and media studies, as well as cutting-edge research into new media. Sections on teaching media/cultural studies and concrete case studies provide practical examples that illuminate contemporary culture, ranging from new forms of digital media and consumer culture to artifacts from TV and film, including Barbie and Big Macs, soap operas, Talk TV, Facebook, and YouTube. The lively articles show that media/cultural studies is an exciting and relevant arena, and this text should enable students and citizens to become informed readers and critics of their culture and society.
9781433107016 9780820495262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009000284
Mass media and culture--Study and teaching. Popular culture--Study and teaching.