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Comedia eBook Series

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  • Media Events in a Global Age

    Edited by Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp, Friedrich Krotz ...
    Series series Comedia
    "This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world—the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and application, and examine media events in a far larger and richer context than ever before. Students of global media today are well served by this superb ... Read more

    $77.61 CAD

  • The Place of Media Power

    Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age

    by Nick Couldry ...
    Series series Comedia
    This fascinating study focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media. Couldry explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention themselves. ... Read more

    $72.68 CAD

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  • Maps of Meaning

    by Peter Jackson ...
    This innovative book marks a significant departure from tradition anlayses of the evolution of cultural landscapes and the interpretation of past environments. Maps of Meaning proposes a new agenda for cultural geography, one set squarely in the context of contemporary social and cultural theory.Notions of place and space are explored through the study of elite and popular cultures, gender and ... Read more

    $81.30 CAD

  • Media/Theory

    Thinking about Media and Communications

    by Shaun Moores ...
    Series series Comedia
    From an established author with a growing international profile in media studies, Media/Theory is an accessible yet challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life.Shaun Moores draws on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and expertly connects the analysis of media and communications with key themes in contemporary social ... Read more

    $71.45 CAD

  • Reacting to Reality Television

    Performance, Audience and Value

    by Beverley Skeggs, Helen Wood ...
    The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour.The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise. But how do we react ... Read more

    $72.68 CAD

  • Television Studies: The Key Concepts

    by Ben Calvert, Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey, Liam French, Justin Lewis ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest. Among those aspects of television studies covered in this comprehensive and up-to-date guide are:theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television - Marxism; semiology; feminismconcepts which have shaped the study of television - narrative; representation; ... Read more

    $60.36 CAD

  • Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940

    The Politics of Method

    by Mike Savage ...
    Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how interview methods and sample surveys eclipsed literature and the community study as a means of understanding ordinary life. The book shows that these ... Read more

    $48.95 CAD

  • Understanding News

    by John Hartley ...
    Series series Studies in Culture and Communication
    News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions. ... Read more

    $71.45 CAD

  • British Cultural Studies

    by Graeme Turner ...
    is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. Turner offers an accessible overview of the central themes that have informed British cultural studies: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse. Beginning with a history of cultural studies, Turner discusses the work of such pioneers as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E. P ... Read more

    $76.37 CAD

  • Come on Down?

    Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain

    Edited by Dominic Strinati, Stephen Wagg ...
    Come on Down represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes. The contributors analyse some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions such as TV soaps, quizzes and game ... Read more

    $71.45 CAD

  • Single Women in Popular Culture

    The Limits of Postfeminism

    by A. Taylor ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture. ... Read more

    $58.04 CAD

  • Feminist Praxis (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology

    Edited by Liz Stanley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    Feminist social scientists often find that carrying feminism into practice in their research is neither easy nor straightforward. Designed precisely with feminist researchers in mind, Feminist Praxis gives detailed analytic accounts of particular examples of feminist research, showing how feminist epistemology can translate into concrete feminist research practices.The contributors, all experts in ... Read more

    $85.00 CAD