The craft of criticism : critical media studies in practice

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The craft of criticism : critical media studies in practice

edited by Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney

Routledge, 2018

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of 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 Beltran 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

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  • NCID
    BB26461644
  • ISBN
    • 9780415716291
    • 9780415716307
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 356 p.
  • Size
    27 cm
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