Introducing Cultural and Media Studies: A Semiotic Approach

ISBN-13: 9780333972472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str.

Tony Thwaites; Warwick Mules; Lloyd Davis

Opis

This second edition of the popular introductory textbook Tools for Cultural 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. 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.

Spis treści

Reading This Book.- Introduction: Tools for Cultural Studies.- Some Aspects of Signs.- Signs and Systems.- Interactions of Signs.- Texts and Textualities.- Genre and Intertextuality.- Narrative.- Discourse and Medium.- Ideology.- Systems and Strategies.- Other Directions.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

TONY THWAITES teaches and writes on cultural studies and literary studies at the University of Queensland. His most recent book is a study of James Joyce, Joycean Temporalities: Debts, Promises and Countersignatures (University Press of Florida, 2001).

LLOYD DAVIS is Reader in English at the University of Queensland. He is the author of a number of essays and books on literary studies. He is also one of the co-authors of Structures and Strategies: An Introduction to Academic Writing (Palgrave, 1996).

WARWICK MULES teaches and reads in cultural studies and critical theory at Central Queensland University. He has numerous publications in the area of visuality and culture.