This unique part reader, part textbook brings core primary media theory readings to the student whilst assisting them with reading, understanding, decoding and deconstructing the material. The dual functionality of the book helps students to familiarise themselves with core texts and develop the necessary critical reading skills and confidence required to engage with the subject.
This groundbreaking and innovative introduction to Media Studies will afford undergraduate and mature students a comprehensive overview of the subject area. It will set students firmly on course to be critical, informed and canny operators within the discipline. The text is pedagogically rich and covers a wide range of topics from the history of media right through to coverage of new media. The text interweaves theory, practice, and professional issues throughout, and will engage the reader fully with the principal issues, challenges and paradigms in the discipline. Media Studies: Texts, Production and Context will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, film studies, the sociology of the media, popular culture and other related subjects.
This introductory textbook for Media and Communication Studies students is designed to encourage observation and evaluation of the European media in the digital age, enabling students to grasp key concepts and gain a broad and clear overview of the area. It also introduces the principal debates, developments (legislative, commercial, political and technological) and issues shaping the European media today, and examines in depth the mass media, digital media, the internet and new media policy. Understanding today?s media scene from print to audiovisual needs a wider view and this book helps make comprehensible the European media within a broader global media landscape. The European Media in the Digital Age is recommended for all Media Studies students and is also of key interest to students of Politics and Policy, Business Studies, International Studies and European Studies.
Nicholas Haeffner provides a comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcock's major British and Hollywood films, navigating students through a wealth of critical commentaries.
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Film and History is a compelling and unique overview of the cinema and its relationship with History, ranging from the ancient world to the modern day.
This is the first study of its kind to offer such a broad historical and theoretical portrayal of the rapidly-growing sub field of history and film.
Rosenstone introduces the varieties, types and traditions of historical films made worldwide and sets this against the changing ways in which historians and other public critics debate the portrayal of history in modern film.
This carefully researched and accessibly written book offers textual and contextual analysis of an extensive breadth of Shakespeare's films ranging from the silent era to the present day.
Nine lively and thought-provoking chapters examine the films as indicators of the cultural moment of their production. Each are analysed in terms of their technical and interpretive mechanisms and considered as part of a wider Shakespeare performance history.
This text introduces the relationship between contemporary cultural theory and the study of history. It relates the ideas of prominent theorists to periods of history and demonstrates the insights of cultural theory in their own work.
