Critical Media Studies: An Introduction

Abstract

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Companion Website -- Chapter 1 Introducing Critical Media Studies -- How We Know What We Know -- Categorizing Mass Media -- Living in Postmodernity -- Why Study the Media? -- Doing Critical Media Studies -- Key Critical Perspectives -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Part I Media Industries: Marxist, Organizational, and Pragmatic Perspectives -- Chapter 2 Marxist Analysis -- Marxist Theory: An Overview -- Patterns of Media Ownership -- Strategies of Profit Maximization -- Advertising -- Consequences of Ownership Patterns and Profit Maximization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Chapter 3 Organizational Analysis -- Organizational Theory: An Overview -- The News Media: An In Depth Case Study -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Pragmatic Analysis -- Pragmatism: An Overview -- A Pragmatic Approach to the Government Regulation of Media -- Issues in the Regulation of American Media -- Violence in the Media: A Closer Look at Pragmatic Regulation -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Part II Media Messages: Rhetorical, Cultural, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives -- Chapter 5 Rhetorical Analysis -- Rhetoric: An Overview -- Theories of the Sign -- Texts and Rhetorical Structures -- The Material Turn: Affect and Aesthetics -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Cultural Analysis -- Cultural Theory: An Overview -- The Functions of Ideology -- Ideological Processes: Myth, Doxa, and Hegemony -- Cultural Studies: History, Theory, and Methodology -- Ideology and Media Representations of Class -- Media, Ideology, and Representations of Race and Ethnicity -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Psychoanalytic Analysis -- Psychoanalytic Theory: An Overview -- Freudian Development -- Lacanian Development

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