Full Description
With contributions from 30 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies. Chapters address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches, like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection, which also addresses emergent technologies and new research tools in such areas as software studies, gaming, and digital humanities. Each chapter includes an intellectual history of a particular method or approach, a discussion of why and how it was used to study a particular medium or media, relevant examples of influential work in the area, and an in-depth review of a case study drawn from the author's own research. Together, the chapters in this collection give media critics a complete toolbox of essential critical media studies methodologies.
Contents
Foreword - Michele Hilmes
Introduction, or How to Cook an Artichoke -Mary Celeste Kearney
PART I PRIMARY METHODS
1 Ideology - Ron Becker
2 Discourse - Rosalind Gill
3 Narrative - Jason Mittell
4 Non-Fiction Media - Daniel Marcus
5 Visual Style - Jeremy Butler
6 Sound - Jacob Smith
7 Acting and Performance - Cynthia Baron
8 Representation - Mary Beltrán
9 Authorship and Auteurism - Cynthia Chris
10 Political Economy - Patrick Burkart
11 Media Policy - Bill Kirkpatrick
12 Psychoanalytic Criticism - Todd McGowan
13 Cognitivism - Ted Nannicelli
14 Ethnography - Jessa Lingel & Mary Gray
PART II Synthetic/Multiperspectival Approaches
15 Audiences - Matt Hills
16 Genre - Amanda Ann Klein
17 Intertexts and Paratexts - Jonathan Gray
18 Stardom and Celebrity - Suzanne Leonard & Diane Negra
19 Cultural Geography - Victoria E. Johnson
20 National/Transnational/Global - Shanti Kumar
21 History and Historiography - Michael Kackman
22 Production - Timothy Havens
PART III Emergent and Challenging Objects
23 Popular Music - Norma Coates
24 New Media - Madhavi Mallapragada
25 Games and Gaming - Matthew Thomas Payne & Nina B. Huntemann
26 Software - Eric Freedman
27 Digital Humanities - Miriam Posner
Contributors' Biographies
