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Communication, cultural and media studies : the key concepts
\"Now in its fifth edition, this pioneering volume of Routledge's 'Key Concepts' series offers clear explanations of key concepts, showing where they came from, what they are used for, and why they provoke discussion or disagreement. The new edition is extensively revised to keep pace with rapidly evolving developments in communication, culture and media, providing topical and authoritative guidance to transformational shifts from broadcast to digital technologies, national to global media and disciplinary to diverse knowledge\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Short History of Cultural Studies
′Cultural studies will never be the same again. Whether you′re new to the field or a tired old jade, [it] will have you sitting bolt upright in your seat...brimming with insight and innovation. A landmark book′ - Toby Miller Professor of Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy, New York University.
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Orality and literacy : the technologizing of the word
Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.
This thirtieth anniversary edition - coinciding with Ong's centenary year - reproduces his best-known and most influential book in full and brings it up to date with two new exploratory essays by cultural writer and critic John Hartley.
Hartley provides:
A scene-setting chapter that situates Ong's work within the historical and disciplinary context of post-war Americanism and the rise of communication and media studies;
A closing chapter that follows up Ong's work on orality and literacy in relation to evolving media forms, with a discussion of recent criticisms of Ong's approach, and an assessment of his concept of the 'evolution of consciousness';
Extensive references to recent scholarship on orality, literacy and the study of knowledge technologies, tracing changes in how we know what we know.
These illuminating essays contextualize Ong within recent intellectual history, and display his work's continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature and the media, as well as that of psychology, education and sociological thought.
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Uses of Television
Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggart’s classic The Uses of Literacy, John Hartley considers the usefulness of both television and television studies. He re-reads the history of broadcast TV’s earliest moments, tracing the critical reception it received from that day to this. Uses of Television asks ‘improper questions’ about what television, and TV Studies, have been for. about the effect of the vast, unknowable audience on television; about the role of television in promoting ‘cultural citizenship’ by means of ‘transmodern teaching’; and about the effects of knowledge produced in the formal study of television. Via a consideration of neglected aspects of media and domestic history, from the 1930s film Housing Problems to Clarissa Explains It All, from the fridge to Umberto Eco’s daughter, Hartley argues that this much-maligned medium can be reassessed in a more positive light. ‘Democratainment’ and ‘do-it-yourself citizenship’ are the latest manifestations of a civic and cultural education that TV performs even as it entertains.
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A dictionary of postmodernism
\"A useful and authoritative A-Z of the critical terms, concepts, and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reading Television
How is it that television has come to play such an important role in our culture? What does TV tell us, and how do we make sense of its content? How does what's on telly relate to the culture of the people watching it? What is it that we find so satisfying in the format of TV crime shows, or in quiz or sports programs, that we enjoy watching them again and again? Reading Television addresses these questions, providing a sympathetic but systematic method of analysis from which critical readings of television can be made. [Publisher]
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A dictionary of postmodernism
A Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture.
* Explores the names and ideas that have come to define the postmodern condition – from Baudrillard, Jameson, and Lyotard, to the concepts of deconstruction, meta-narrative, and simulation – alongside less canonical topics such as dialogue and punk
* Includes essays by the late Niall Lucy, a leading expert in postmodernism studies, and by other noted scholars who came together to complete and expand upon his last work
* Spans a kaleidoscope of postmodernism perspectives, addressing its lovers and haters; its movers and shakers such as Derrida; its origins in modernism and semiotics, and its outlook for the future
* Features a series of brief essays rather than fixed definitions of the key ideas and arguments
* Engaging and thought-provoking, this is at once a scholarly guide and enduring reference for the field
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