Making Sense of Media Key Texts in Media and Cultural Studies [Paperback]

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

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: The Media in Our Lives:.

1. Saussure, Course in General Linguistics:.

In Practice: King Andrew the First.

2. Roland Barthes, Mythologies:.

In Practice: A Semiotic Analysis of a Sea Shell.

3. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By:.

In Practice: Love is a Game.

4. Aristotle, Poetics:.

In Practice: Theories on Comedy.

5. Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction to Poetics:.

In Practice: What Happens in Hamlet.

6. Vladimir Propp, &l…