TY  - BOOK
AU  - Katz,Elihu
TI  - Canonic texts in media research: are there any? should there be? how about these? 
SN  - 9780745629346
AV  - P91.3 .C36 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -