Recharting Media Studies; Essays on Neglected Media Critics

ISBN-13: 9783039110155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 321 str.

Bounds, Philip

Spis treści

Contents: Philip Bounds/Mala Jagmohan: Expanding the Canon: A Polemical Introduction - Ieuan Williams: Plato: Media Theorist - Ieuan Williams: Spinoza as a Theorist of Communication - Kevin Williams: Millionaires and the Public Mind: Norman Angell and the Political Economy of the Press - Mala Jagmohan: Rediscovering Robert Park - Philip Bounds: Orwell and Mass Communication: The Dialogue with British Marxism - Geraint Evans: Elizabeth Eisenstein and the Idea of Media History - Philip Bounds: Beyond Ways of Seeing : The Media Criticism of John Berger - Daisy Hasan: Neil Postman and the Rise of Infotainment in India - Jonathan Smith: Umberto Eco; or, A Portrait of the Semiotician as a Young Media Critic - Helen Fulton: Reading Media Images: The Visual Grammar of Kress and van Leeuwen.

O autorze

The Editors: Philip Bounds holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Wales. He is the author of British Communism and Literary Theory, Orwell and Marxism and Cultural Studies.
Mala Jagmohan is a Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Swansea University. She previously worked as a journalist in her native Fiji, where she was the founding editor of the Sunday Times and editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly.