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Making Sense of Media: Key Texts in Media and Cultural Studies
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2017-3
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208 pages
October 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Making Sense of Media is a lively and accessible text that helps readers understand mass media and the texts they carry. Designed expressly for those interested in gaining a solid understanding of the media and how they work, it is an indispensable book.

  • Offers a lively, accessible, and concise textbook to help readers understand mass media and their texts



  • Covers seminal figures, concepts and scholarship in mass media studies, including Vladimir Propp, Mikhail Bakhtin, Raymond Williams, Fredric Jameson, and Stuart Hall



  • Explores the ideas found in nineteen significant books that will provide useful insights and concepts for anyone interested in the study of the media



  • Features chapter-by-chapter short articles by the author, that address an idea or theory in the particular book being discussed



  • Includes charts, boxes features, exercises, and illustrations to round out analyses and engage the beginning student.
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