The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice

With contributions from 35 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies.

Fully revised and updated throughout, the chapters in this second edition address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy studies, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches, like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection, which also addr...