Keywords for Media Studies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781479883653)

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies

Keywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, whether that means noting a long history of "new media," or tracing how understandings of media "power" vary across time periods and knowledge formations.

Bringing together an impressive group of established scholars from television studies, film studies, sound studies, games studies, and more, each of the 65 essays in the volume focuses on a critical concept, from "fan" to "industry," and "celebrity" to "surveillance." Keywords for Media Studies is an essential tool that introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies.

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Author: Laurie Ouellette
ISBN-10: 1479883654
ISBN-13: 9781479883653
Publisher: New York University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2017
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2017