Product Description: In this book, John Corner explores how issues of power, form and subjectivity feature at the core of all serious thinking about the media, including appreciations of their creativity as well as anxiety about the risks they pose. Drawing widely on an interdisciplinary literature he connects his exposition to examples from film, television, radio, photography, painting, web practice, music and writing in order to bring in topics as diverse as reporting the war in Afghanistan, the televising of football, documentary portrayals of 9/11, reality television, the diversity of taste in the arts and the construction of civic identity...read more

Product Description: Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics, and society. Based on full access to the archives, it offers a fascinating historical account of how one television series--Granada's World in Action, celebrated for its tough journalism, visual directness, and public impact--functioned and developed over its run across 35 years between 1963 and 1998...read more

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Product Description: International Media Research offers a rigorous and critical review of key approaches and concerns that have recently defined the field of media research. In this clearly argued collection of essays, the contributors analyze and reflect upon dominant themes and debates that have made media research an increasingly important element of cultural theory...read more

Product Description: Within media research and cultural studies, the mediation of politicians and the play-off between versions of high and low politics are attracting increasing interest. Media and the Restyling of Politics brings together the work of leading academics in media and cultural studies to pursue an agenda of research, analysis and debate about the changing nature of political culture and its mediation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Media studies courses are more popular than ever. This collection brings together a selection of John Corner's writings, considering such issues as Media Language, Reception Studies, the Role of Theory, and Cultural Evaluation. This accessibly written book is an invaluable resource for advanced students, providing new perspectives on the media...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This important book is the first to offer a systematic review of the ideas which have been most influential across a full range of television criticism and research from the first pioneering studies to the most recent theory and analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Documentary is a controversial and important area of media production. The art of record is a fascinating insight into the function of documentary in film and television. Its attempts to depict reality, and to comment on it, have provoked disagreement from the 1920s to the present day...read more

Product Description: This reader offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the study of television. Primarily intended for students at undergraduate level, it raises questions about the nature of television as a medium and a practice and looks at the analysis of programmes, policy and organizations, considering the various political and social contexts of contemporary television...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fundamental questions are asked in this book about the nature of what appears on screen and how it variously engages, informs and entertains viewers. After setting out some of the distinctive features of the medium, illustrated by examples, the question of the likely and possible political consequences of these features is directly addressed...read more

Product Description: The selected readings in this guide to communication studies are arranged in sections, containing an overview of the area, an introduction to the material included and suggestions for further reading. Updated and expanded to include 11 new items, the reader now features the most recent approaches to communication analysis - for example, work on the defining characteristics of modernity, and on the rhetorical analysis of political speech - combined with "classic" pieces from pioneer research...read more

Product Description: The phenomena of `enterprise' and `heritage' might at first thought seem unrelated: this book sets out to show that the two concepts are not only related but deeply interdependent. If `enterprise' can be used to define the official encouragement of the values of the market society, then the growth of the heritage industry can be seen as a manifestation of the entrepreneurial spirit - marketing the past so that it is accessible to the man or woman in the street...read more