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Media and society : an introduction / Michael O'Shaughnessy, Jane Stadler.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press, 2005.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xviii, 494 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0195517563
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23 OSH
Contents:
Part 1: Getting ready: the media and media studies: 1. Defining the media - 2. Media studies - 3. What do the media do to us? Media and society - 4. What's in a name? Language and the social construction of reality - 5. Mediation and representation. 6. Texts, meanings, and audiences -- Part 2: Pictures: Semiotic analysis: 7. Semiology - 8. Reading images - 9. Model essay: Semiotic analysis of an advertisement -- Part 3: Making sense: discourse, ideology, and hegemony: 10. Defining discourse and ideology - 11. Where are discourses and ideologies found? - 12. Dominant ideology and hegemony - 13. Culture jamming and counter-hegemony -- Part 4: Stories: Approaches for narrative analysis: 14. Genres, codes, and conventions - 15. The language of film: American beauty - 16. Narrative structure and binary oppositions - 17. Documentary and reality TV - 18. Why stories? - 19. Narrative, the Hero's Journey, and Jungian Psychoanalysis -- Part 5: Media and identity: representation, impact, and influence: 20. Feminism, Postfeminism, and ideologies of femininity - 21. Ideologies and discourses of masculinity - 22. Ethnicity, ideology, and the media - 23. Stars and celebrities -- Part 6: But they keep moving the posts: postmodren and global perspectives: 24. Postmodernism - 25. Globalisation and technological development.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 470-484) and index.

Part 1: Getting ready: the media and media studies: 1. Defining the media - 2. Media studies - 3. What do the media do to us? Media and society - 4. What's in a name? Language and the social construction of reality - 5. Mediation and representation. 6. Texts, meanings, and audiences -- Part 2: Pictures: Semiotic analysis: 7. Semiology - 8. Reading images - 9. Model essay: Semiotic analysis of an advertisement -- Part 3: Making sense: discourse, ideology, and hegemony: 10. Defining discourse and ideology - 11. Where are discourses and ideologies found? - 12. Dominant ideology and hegemony - 13. Culture jamming and counter-hegemony -- Part 4: Stories: Approaches for narrative analysis: 14. Genres, codes, and conventions - 15. The language of film: American beauty - 16. Narrative structure and binary oppositions - 17. Documentary and reality TV - 18. Why stories? - 19. Narrative, the Hero's Journey, and Jungian Psychoanalysis -- Part 5: Media and identity: representation, impact, and influence: 20. Feminism, Postfeminism, and ideologies of femininity - 21. Ideologies and discourses of masculinity - 22. Ethnicity, ideology, and the media - 23. Stars and celebrities -- Part 6: But they keep moving the posts: postmodren and global perspectives: 24. Postmodernism - 25. Globalisation and technological development.