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Canonic texts in media research : are there any? should there be? how about these? / edited by Elihu Katz ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge : Polity Press, 2003.Description: ix, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780745629346
  • 0745629342
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P91.3 .C36 2003
Contents:
Critical research at Columbia : Lazarsfeld's and Merton's "Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action" / Peter Simonson and Gabriel Weimann -- Herzog's "On Borrowed Experience" : its place in the debate over the active audience / Tamar Liebes -- Subtlety of Horkheimer and Adorno : reading "The Cultural Industry" / John Durham Peters -- Benjamin contextualized : on "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" / Paddy Scannell -- Redeeming consumption : on Lowenthal's "The Triumph of the Mass Idols" / Eva Illouz -- Community and pluralism in Wirth's "Consensus and Mass Communication" / Eric W. Rothenbuhler -- Audience is a crowd, the crowd is a public : latter-day thoughts on Lang and Lang's "MacArthur Day in Chicago" / Elihu Katz and Daniel Dayan -- Towards the virtual encounter : Horton's and Wohl's "Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction" / Don Handelman -- Harold Adams Innis and his Bias of Communication / Menahem Blondheim -- Canonic anti-text : Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media / Joshua Meyrowitz -- Retroactive enrichment : Raymond Williams's Culture and Society / John Durham Peters -- Canonization achieved? : Stuart Hall's "Encoding/Decoding" / Michael Gurevitch and Paddy Scannell -- Afterthoughts on Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure" in the age of cultural studies / Yosefa Loshitzky.
Summary: Media studies is more than 50 years old, and the authors in this text offer their own candidate texts for canonization. Each essay presents a critical reading of one of these classics and debates its candidacy. The texts are summarized, analysed and re-examined for their contemporary relevance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Critical research at Columbia : Lazarsfeld's and Merton's "Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action" / Peter Simonson and Gabriel Weimann --
Herzog's "On Borrowed Experience" : its place in the debate over the active audience / Tamar Liebes --
Subtlety of Horkheimer and Adorno : reading "The Cultural Industry" / John Durham Peters --
Benjamin contextualized : on "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" / Paddy Scannell --
Redeeming consumption : on Lowenthal's "The Triumph of the Mass Idols" / Eva Illouz --
Community and pluralism in Wirth's "Consensus and Mass Communication" / Eric W. Rothenbuhler --
Audience is a crowd, the crowd is a public : latter-day thoughts on Lang and Lang's "MacArthur Day in Chicago" / Elihu Katz and Daniel Dayan --
Towards the virtual encounter : Horton's and Wohl's "Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction" / Don Handelman --
Harold Adams Innis and his Bias of Communication / Menahem Blondheim --
Canonic anti-text : Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media / Joshua Meyrowitz --
Retroactive enrichment : Raymond Williams's Culture and Society / John Durham Peters --
Canonization achieved? : Stuart Hall's "Encoding/Decoding" / Michael Gurevitch and Paddy Scannell --
Afterthoughts on Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure" in the age of cultural studies / Yosefa Loshitzky.

Media studies is more than 50 years old, and the authors in this text offer their own candidate texts for canonization. Each essay presents a critical reading of one of these classics and debates its candidacy. The texts are summarized, analysed and re-examined for their contemporary relevance.

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