The Craft of Media Criticism Critical Media Studies in Practice 1st Edition by Mary Celeste Kearney, Michael Kackman 1134749232 9781134749232

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Author:  Mary Celeste Kearney, Michael Kackman 

With contributions from 30 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies. Chapters address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches, like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection, which also addresses emergent technologies and new research tools in such areas as software studies, gaming, and digital humanities. Each chapter includes an intellectual history of a particular method or approach, a discussion of why and how it was used to study a particular medium or media, relevant examples of influential work in the area, and an in-depth review of a case study drawn from the author’s own research. Together, the chapters in this collection give media critics a complete toolbox of essential critical media studies methodologies.

The Craft of Media Criticism Critical Media Studies in Practice 1st Table of contents:

Part I Primary Methods
1 Ideology
Intellectual History of the Concept
Method and Major Terminology
Conclusion
2 Discourse
Overview
History and Intellectual Context
Elaborating Discourse Analysis
Method and Major Terminology
Conclusion
3 Narrative
Intellectual History
Major Modes and Concepts
Case Study: Veronica Mars’s Pilot in Slow-Motion
4 Non-Fiction Media
Documentary Studies
Major Modes of Documentary Studies
Journalism Studies
Reality Television Studies
Case Study: Documentary and Video Activism
Conclusion
5 Visual Style
Interpreting Style
Historicizing Style
Historicizing the Study of Style (Stylistics)
A Case Study of Stylistic Analysis
Conclusion: Whither Style in the Age of Streaming Video?
6 Sound
Sound Among the Senses
Sonic Spaces
Record Machines
Listening Publics and Talking Bodies
The Sound of Music / The Music of Sound
Case Study: Tearing Speech to Pieces
Conclusion
7 Acting and Performance
Screen Performance: Misconceptions and Reassessments
Analyzing Screen Performance: Terms and Concepts
Analyzing Postmodern Performances
Case Study: Considering Postmodern Performances from a Global Perspective
Conclusion
8 Representation
A Brief History of the Study of Representation
Reading Representation: Concepts and Terms for Your Critical Tool Box
A Case Study in Interpreting Representation: Macha Latinas
Representation as Critical Focus: Final Thoughts
9 Authorship and Auteurism
Who Is an Author?
What Is an “Auteur”?
The Literary Author
The Author, Diffused
The (New) Media Author
The Legal Author
Case Study: The Actor, the Author, and the Animal
Conclusion
10 Political Economy
Overview
Intellectual History of Political Economy
International Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights
Case Study: Pirate Politics in the European Information Society
Conclusion
11 Media Policy
Overview
Intellectual History of the Concept
Major Modes and Terminology
Methods
Challenges
Case Study: Radio, Disability, and Media Policy
Conclusion
12 Psychoanalytic Criticism
Overview of Psychoanalytic Theory
The History of Psychoanalytic Film Theory
Major Modes of Psychoanalytic Theory
Case Study: Lost in Translation
Future Directions
13 Cognitivism
Overview
Intellectual History
Major Modes and Concepts
Case Study: Long-Running Gags in Serial Television Comedy
Conclusion
14 Ethnography
Overview
Intellectual History of the Concept
Major Modes and Terminology
Case Study: Media Ethnography in Practice
Ethnography and Media Studies: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
Part II Synthetic/Multiperspectival Approaches
15 Audiences
Overview
Intellectual History of the Concept
Major Modes and Terminology
Case Study: Psychoanalytic Ethnography and Cyclical Fandom
Conclusion
16 Genre
Overview
Intellectual History of the Concept
Major Concepts
Case Study: The Kissing Cycle
Conclusion
17 Intertexts and Paratexts
An Intellectual History
Doing Intertextual Scholarship
Paratextuality
Case Study: Paratextual Pre-Views
Conclusion
18 Stardom and Celebrity
Intellectual History of the Concept
Stardom and Celebrity in Film, Television, and New Media
Case Study: Bethenny Frankel as Postfeminist Entrepreneur
19 Cultural Geography
Critical Prerequisites for Thinking Geographically
New Cinema History
Broadcast and Digital Media: The National “Ideal” and Persistence of the Local
Case Study—“‘You’re Gonna Make It After All!’”
20 National/Transnational/Global
Overview
Nationalism and Transnationalism
Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization
The Global Village and Deterritorialization
Case Study: The Process Geography of Regional Cinemas in India
Conclusion
21 History and Historiography
Intellectual Foundations: The History of History
The Practice of Media History: Modes of Media Historiography
Case Study: Children’s Westerns, Transmediation, and the Origins of Global TV
Conclusion: The Future of Media History?
22 Production
Overview
Intellectual Roots
Major Modes and Terminology of Media Production Studies
Main Issues in Production
Case Study: Minority Television in a Global, Post-Network Era
Future Research
Part III Emergent and Challenging Objects
23 Popular Music
Intellectual History
Modes and Terminology
Case Study: Girls and Women and Rock Culture in the 1960s and Early 1970s
Into the Future
24 New Media
Theoretical and Methodological Debates in New Media
Debates over New Media Research and Research Methods
Case Study: The Remediation of Religion in Digital Culture
Conclusion
25 Games and Gaming
Introduction: “The Play’s the Thing”
Historical Foundations: Theorizing Play
Intellectual History: It’s How You Play the Game
Case Study: Spec Ops: The Line
Conclusion: Leveling Up? Game Studies after Gameplay
26 Software
Why Software Studies?
Cultural Histories
Software Studies and Media Studies
The Intellectual History of Software Studies
Case Study: Applied Software Studies
The Lessons of Software Studies
Closing Thoughts: On Software and Society
27 Digital Humanities
History
Major Modes and Terminology
Case Study: Oscar Micheaux’s Network
Conclusion
Further Reading
Contributors’ Biographies

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