Making sense of media : key texts in media and cultural studies /

Making sense of media : key texts in media and cultural studies /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-
Imprint:	Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Description:	x, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mass media. Mass media.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5775695

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ISBN:	1405120169 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405120177 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-187) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Media in Our Lives
1. Course in General Linguistics
In Practice: King Andrew the First
2. Mythologies
In Practice: A Semiotic Analysis of a Sea Shell
3. Metaphors We Live By
In Practice: Love is a Game
4. Poetics
In Practice: Theories on Comedy
5. Introduction to Poetics
In Practice: What Happens in Hamlet
6. Morphology of the Folktale
In Practice: Understanding Genres
7. Reading the Romance
In Practice: Write Your Own Romance Novel
8. Hamlet on the Holodeck
In Practice: Hypotheses on Pac-Man and Video Games
9. The Dialogic Imagination
In Practice: Parody and Laughter
10. Semiotics of Cinema
In Practice: The "1984" Macintosh Commercial
11. Film Form
In Practice: Rashomontage
12. Marxism and Literature
In Practice: The Prisoner and "The General"
13. Everyday Life in the Modern World
In Practice: Cells and Terror
14. The Practice of Everyday Life
In Practice: Resistance Through Ridicule
15. Understanding Media
In Practice: The Financial Times
16. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
In Practice: A Postmodern Perspective on Madonna
17. Cultural Theory
In Practice: Political Cultures and Popular Culture
18. Black Looks: Race and Representation
In Practice: Krazy Kat and "Racial" Memory
19. "The Work of Representation"
In Practice: 9/11 as Representation
20. Afterword: A Confessional
Bibliography
Index