Media Studies: A Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748612068 ISBN 13: 9780748612062

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Media Studies: A Reader contains all of the classic texts which reflect the development of the field in Britain. With its rigorous content and comprehensive coverage, the book provides all the essential readings in one volume. The combination of a broad selection of texts together with clearly written and relevant commentaries to each section means the book is an ideal text for classroom use and home-based learning.This edition contains:* Updating of all sections to include new work on:- audience research- media globalisation- media discourse* An additional case study section on new media* Further Reading lists updated* Introductory essays to each section expanded* Internal layout completely redesigned for ease of use

About this title

About the Authors

Paul Marris is Programme Leader for Art, Design & Media, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University.

Sue Thornham is emerita Professor of Film and Media at the University of Sussex. She is author of Passionate Detachments (1997), Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies (2001), Approaches to TV Drama (2004, with Tony Purvis), Women, Feminism and Media (2007), What if I Had Been the Hero? Investigating Women’s Filmmaking (2012) and Spaces of Women’s Cinema (2019). She is also author of numerous articles on feminist theory and film and television texts, and editor of three key collections, Feminist Film Theory: A Reader (1999), Media Studies: A Reader (3rd edition, 2009) and Film and Gender (2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748612068
• ISBN 13: 9780748612062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 896
• Editor: Marris Paul, Thornham Sue