Keywords for Media Studies

by Laurie Ouellette (Editor), Jonathan Gray (Editor)

Overview

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies

Keywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, whether that means noting a long history of “new media,” or tracing how understandings of media “power” vary across time periods and knowledge formations.

Bringing together an impressive group of established scholars from television studies, film studies, sound studies, games studies, and more, each of the 65 essays in the volume focuses on a critical concept, from “fan” to “industry,” and “celebrity” to “surveillance.” Keywords for Media Studies is an essential tool that introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies.

Visit keywords.nyupress.org for online essays, teaching resources, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781479804238
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	03/14/2017
Series:	Keywords , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	594 KB

About the Author

Laurie Ouellette is jointly appointed as Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Lifestyle TV (2016) co-editor (with Jonathan Gray) of Keywords in Media Studies (2017), co-author of Better Living Through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship (2008), author of Viewers Like You? How Public Television Failed the People (2002), co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2009), editor of The Media Studies Reader (2012), and editor of A Companion to Reality Television (2014).
Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010), Fandom, Second Edition (2017), Keywords for Media Studies (2017), and Satire TV (2009), as well as Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and A Companion to Media Authorship (with Derek Johnson).

Editorial Reviews

"[Keywords for Media Studies] is an excellent and comprehensive reference point for both media studies scholars and students."

European Journal of Communication

"Ouellette and Grays lexicon of media terms frames complicated constructs in clear and succinct descriptions that tend to render obscure terms accessible to students studying media theory."

Choice

"Written by many of the key scholars in media studies, this book is a wonderful introduction to the history, circulation, and meaning of concepts in the field. A useful, thorough, and compelling primer for anyone interested media criticism today."

Lynn Spigel

"[ Keywords for Media Studies ] is an excellent and comprehensive reference point for both media studies’ scholars and students."- European Journal of Communication

“Written by many of the key scholars in media studies, this book is a wonderful introduction to the history, circulation, and meaning of concepts in the field. A useful, thorough, and compelling primer for anyone interested media criticism today.”-Lynn Spigel,Northwestern University

"Ouellette and Gray’s lexicon of media terms frames complicated constructs in clear and succinct descriptions that tend to render obscure terms accessible to students studying media theory."- Choice

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