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Super media : a cultural studies approach
- Title
- Super media : a cultural studies approach / Michael R. Real.
- Author
- Real, Michael R., 1940-
- Publication
- Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- 283 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Selected as One of Media & Values' Best Books Using varying approaches, researchers have tried to capture the actual dynamics and role of media in culture and society, but do we really understand this relationship? Super Media introduces and illustrates the newly emerging cultural studies approach to understanding the media in society. Drawing from both humanities and the social sciences, cultural studies centers its analysis in text, meaning, representation, interpretation, conflict, ideology, hegemony, and culture. In his analysis, Michael Real first provides a critical review of previous traditions of media research and theory--illustrated with tables and comparative charts--and then reintegrates media study around cultural studies. He then presents extensive case studies that illustrate the concepts and theories of the cultural studies approach. Included are the most widely available expressions of culture in history: the Olympics, superpower politics, Oscar-winning films, prime time television, and other transnational cases. Original in perspective, Super Media examines top research in media communication and provides a synthesis between research and the media experiences that affect people's everyday lives. The result is a provocative volume that will provide useful insights to professionals and advanced students in all areas of communication and popular culture. --Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Communication and human values
- Uniform Title
- Communication and human values (Newbury Park, Calif.)
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography.
- Contents
- Our Media, Ourselves : Identity, Culture, and the Experience of Super Media -- Cultural Studies as Metadiscipline : Interpreting Presidential Assassinations -- Empirical Analysis : The Academy Awards -- Structuralist Analysis 1 : Bill Cosby and Recoding Ethnicity -- Structuralist Analysis 2 : Gender in Movie Directing -- Critical Analysis 1 : The Cold War in Film and Television or, Take That, You Dirty Commie! -- Critical Analysis 2 : Media Bias and Olympic Boycotts -- Ritual Analysis : The Olympic Global Event -- Conclusions : Super Media : The Clouded Mirror.
- ISBN
- 0803933134
- 9780803933132
- 0803933142
- 9780803933149
- 9803933142 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 88035645
- OCLC
- ocm19066893
- 19066893
- SCSB-1727302
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library