Media Analysis Techniques - Hardcover

Berger, Arthur A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761914536 ISBN 13: 9780761914532

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1998

Synopsis

The Second Edition of the bestselling Media Analysis Techniques provides concise explanations of four perspectives to media analysis - semiological, Marxist, psychoanalytical and sociological - and then demonstrates how these various analyses might be applied to the various popular media such as literature, advertisements and political propaganda.

While retaining the classic coverage presented in the first edition, Berger has revised and expanded the volume to include a number of new features, including: a new chapter on advertising; enhanced discussions on methodology; a glossary of terms; a study guide to help students focus on important concepts; a number of learning games, exercises and activities; and new drawings and illustrations.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur Asa Berger is Professor Emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, where he taught between 1965 and 2003. He has published more than 100 articles, numerous book reviews, and more than 60 books. Among his latest books are the third edition of Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (2013), The Academic Writer’s Toolkit: A User’s Manual (2008), What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture (2009), Bali Tourism (2013), Tourism in Japan: An Ethno-Semiotic Analysis (2010), The Culture Theorist’s Book of Quotations (2010), and The Objects of Our Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture (2010). He has also written a number of academic mysteries such as Durkheim is Dead: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Sociological Theory (2003) and Mistake in Identity: A Cultural Studies Murder Mystery (2005). His books have been translated into eight languages and thirteen of his books have been translated into Chinese.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0761914536
• ISBN 13: 9780761914532
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240