Introducing Cultural and Media Studies
A Semiotic Approach
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Beschreibung
This second edition of the popular introductory textbook Introducing Cultural and Media Studies, has been thoroughly revised and updated for a new generation of students taking introductory courses in cultural studies and cultural analysis at a tertiary level. Clear, applied and very easy to follow, it provides a solid grounding in the key terms and theories necessary for the study of popular culture and media texts. Without underestimating the complexity of the social, this text encourages a critical and inventive attitude to cultural theory and, through its practical step-by-step approach, is very confidence-building. References and resources have been revised to include world wide web addresses, and examples are tailored to appeal to a broad international readership.
- Encourages a critical and inventive attitude to cultural theory
- Covers all the standard terms and ideas involved in critically analysing the material culture of everyday life: textuality and intertextuality, discourse, genre, narrative, myth, ideology, cultural difference and identity
- Working definitions of key terms are boxed in the main text and highlighted in bold in the index
- Sections and subsections are kept short and clearly signposted
- Illustrative examples are picked out visually from the main narrative
- Exercises, sources and annotated further reading lists are all easily accessed at the ends of chapters
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Tony Thwaites
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