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MediaSpace Wiki | Critical Analysis Spring2010 |
| Currently a Working Draft |
| 1 | W, Feb 3 | What is "Critical Analysis"? | ?CriticalAnalysisS2010S01 | |
| 2 | W, Feb 10 | Snow Closing | ||
| 3 | W, Feb 17 | Ecologies of Critical Perspectives | Read http://davis.foulger.info/research/unifiedModelOfCommunication.htm, "The X is the Message" (posted on Moodle), and http://evolutionarymedia.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?IntroductionToMediaCriticism | CriticalAnalysisS2010S02 |
| 4 | W, Feb 24 | Semiotices: Meanings and Their Representation | CriticalAnalysisS2010S03 | |
| 5 | W, Mar 3 | Narrative: Representation and its Packaging | CriticalAnalysisS2010S04 | |
| 6 | W, Mar 10 | Genre: Patterns of Representation | CriticalAnalysisS2010S05 | |
| 7 | W, Mar 17 | Reader-Oriented Criticism: Audience Perspectives | CriticalAnalysisS2010S06 | |
| 8 | W, Mar 24 | Cultural Perspectives | CriticalAnalysisS2010S07 | |
| - | Draft from here on | Ideological Perspectives | ?CriticalAnalysisS2010S08 | |
| - | Mar 29-Apr 6 | Spring Recess | ||
| 9 | W, Apr 7 | Inside Ideological Perspectives | ?CriticalAnalysisS2010S09 | |
| 10 | W, Apr 14 | The Perspective of Production | CriticalAnalysisS2010S10 | |
| 11 | W, Apr 21 | Probes and Metaphoric Perspectives | CriticalAnalysisS2010S11 | |
| 12 | W, Apr 28 | Post-Modern Perspectives | CriticalAnalysisS2010S12 | |
| 13 | W, May 5 | The Rearview Mirror and the Fictional Flash Forward | CriticalAnalysisS2010S13 | |
| 14 | W, May 12 | Term Paper Presentations | No Readings | CriticalAnalysisS2010S14 |
| 15 | May 19-25 | Final Exams, Date TBD | No Readings | ?CriticalAnalysisS2010S15 |
Media Studies: A Reader - Table of Contents
Preface Introduction: About this Reader 1 Mass Communication 14 2 Culture Industry Reconsidered 24 3 The Medium is the Message 30 4 'Mass Communication' and 'Minority Culture' 35 5 Encoding/Decoding 41 6 The Power of the Image 50 7 The Public Sphere 55 8 The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media 60 9 On the Cultural Industries 78 10 The Media and the State 84 11 Concentration and Ownership in the Era of Privatization 91 12 Producers in British Television 102 13 The BBC and the 1956 Suez Crisis 113 14 Radio Signs 125 15 The Codes of Television 133 16 Programming as Sequence or Flow 142 17 Broadcast TV Narration 148 18 Racist Ideologies and the Media 160 19 Fictions and Ideologies: The Case of Situation Comedy 169 20 Progressive Television and Documentary Drama 180 21 Televised Chat and the Synthetic Personality 189 22 Survival Skills and Daydreams 205 23 Cagney & Lacey: Feminist Strategies of Detection 211 24 The Page Three Girl Speaks to Women, Too 221 25 Whose Imaginary? The Televisual Apparatus, the Female Body and Textual Strategies in Select Rock Videos on MTV 237 26 Postmodernism and Popular Culture 246 27 Desensitization, Violence and the Media 260 28 On the Social Effects of Television 266 29 The Television Audience: A Revised Perspective 271 30 Uses and Gratifications Research: A Critique 285 31 Cultural Transformations: The Politics of Resistance 298 32 Housewives and the Mass Media 307 33 Wanted: Audiences. On the Politics of Empirical Audience Studies 313 34 Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home 327 35 Moments of Television: Neither the Text nor the Audience 337 36 ?EastEnders: Creating the Audience 355 37 The Continuous Serial: A Definition 362 38 The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas 371 39 Dallas and Feminism 381 40 Crossroads: Notes on Soap Opera 386 41 Everything Stops for Crossroads: Watching with the Audience 391 42 News Values and News Production + Bias, Objectivity and Ideology 405 43 The Production of Radio and Television News 416 44 The Social Production of News 424 45 The Falklands Conflict: The Home Front 430 46 When a Woman Reads the News 438 47 News Content and Audience Belief 446 48 Advertising: The Magic System 461 49 The Impact of Advertising on the British Mass Media 466 50 Understanding Advertisers 480 51 Decoding Advertisements 489 52 Handling Sex 492 53 Discriminating or Duped? Young People as Consumers of Advertising/Art 503 54 Consumer Culture and the Aura of the Commodity 510 Further Reading 515 Acknowledgements 517 Index of Names 521 Subject Index 524
Television and the present climate of criticism 1 'Too many kids and old ladles' : quality demographics and 1960s U.S. television 15 Negotiating civil rights in prime time : a production and reception history of CBS's East Side/West Side 37 Innovating women's television in local and national networks : Ruth Lyons and Arlene Francis 60 Ethnic masculinity and early television's vaudeo star 85 Identity, power, and local television : African Americans, organized labor, and UHF-TV in Chicago, 1962-1968 106 Toward a paradigm for media production research : behind the scenes at General Hospital 133 Translating trek : rewriting an American icon in a Francophone context 150 Double vision : large-screen video display and live sports spectacle 185 Erasing blackness : the media construction of 'race' in Mi Familia, the first Puerto Rican situation comedy with a black family 207 Textual (im)possibilities in the U.S. post-network era : negotiating production and promotion processes on lifetime's Any Day Now 273 'Ah, yes, I remember it well' : memory and queer culture in Will and Grace 249 Cartoon realism : genre mixing and the cultural life of The Simpsons? 272 The West Wing's prime-time presidentiality : mimesis and catharsis in a postmodern romance 292 Sex and the city and consumer culture : remediating postfeminist drama 315 Girls rule! : gender, feminism, and Nickelodeon 332 Soap opera in China : the transnational politics of visuality, sexuality, and masculinity 353 McTV : understanding the global popularity of television formats 375 Sounds real : music and documentary 397 From insiders to outsiders : the advent of new political television 408 Television melodrama 438 Components of a viewing culture 455 Big Brother : the real audience 471 Telenovela reception in rural Brazil : gendered readings and sexual mores 486 Sex appeal and cultural liberty : a feminist inquiry into MTV India 507 To have and to hold : the video collector's relationship with an ethereal medium 530 'This is not al dente' : The Sopranos and the new meaning of 'television' 561 The family racket : AOL Time Warner, HBO, The Sopranos, and the construction of a quality brand 579 Television as transmodern teaching 595 'Democracy as defeat' : the impotence of arguments for public service broadcasting 605 A response to Elizabeth Jacka's 'democracy as defeat' 618 Entertainment wars : television culture after 9/11 625 Regulation, media literacy, and media civics 654
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