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Canonic Texts in Media Research Are There Any? Should There Be? How about These?

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ISBN-10: 0745629342

ISBN-13: 9780745629346

Edition: 2003

Authors: Elihu. Katz, John Durham Peters, Tamar Liebes, Avril Orloff

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Media studies is more than 50 years old, and the authors in this text offer their own candidate texts for canonization. Each essay presents a critical reading of one of these classics and debates its candidacy. The texts are summarized, analysed and re-examined for their contemporary relevance.
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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 12/13/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.04" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Daniel Dayan is a Fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.Elihu Katz is Trustee Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvannia; Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Scientific Director of the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research.

Should There Be Any?
How about These?
Introduction: Shoulders to Stand Onection
The Columbia Schoolntroductionritical Research at Columbia: Lazarsfeld and Merton's"Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action" Peter Simonson and Gabriel Weimannerzog's"On Borrowed Experience:" Its Place in the Debate Over the Active Audience
The Frankfurt Schoolntroductionhe Subtlety of Horkheimer and Adorno: Reading"The Culture Industry" John Durham Petersenjamin Contextualized: On"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" Paddy Scannelledeeming Consumption: On Lowenthal's"The Triumph of the Mass Idols"
The Chicago Schoolntroductionommunity and Pluralism in Wirth's"Consensus and Mass Communication" Eric Rothenbuhlerhe Audience Is a Crowd, the Crowd Is a Public: Latter-Day Thoughts on Lang and Lang's"MacArthur Day in Chicago" Elihu Katz and Daniel Dayanowards the Virtual Encounter
The Toronto Schoolntroductionarold Adams Innis and his Bias of Communication Menahem Blondheimanonic Anti-text: Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media Joshua Meyrowitzection V: British Cultural Studiesntroductionetroactive Enrichment
Stuart Hall's"Encoding/Decoding"
thoughts on Mulvey's"Visual Pleasure" in the Age of Cultural Studies