Media Theory
Casetti, Francesco (1996),
'Communicative situations: the cinema and the television situation',
Semiotica 112-1/2. An interesting comparison on how we receive and perceive
film and television texts.
Harms, John B. & David
R. Dickens (1996), 'Postmodern Media Studies: analysis or symptom?',
Critical Studies in Mass Communication 13. A useful review of the strengths
and weaknesses of PM sensibilities.
Frith, Simon (1997), 'The
good, the bad and the ugly choices', The Australian April 9. The noted
music sociologist argues, wisely and coherently, for 'value judgements'
across all strands of cultural consumption.
Hoover, Stewart M. &
Shalini S. Venturelli (1996), 'The category of the religious: the blindspot
of contemporary media theory", Critical Studies in Mass Communication
13. Argues that media theory must take account of 'the realms of meaning,
ontology and cultural practice traditionally in the province of religion'.
Lewis, Justin (1997), 'What
counts in media studies', Media, Culture & Society 19. Lewis argues
for greater use of quantitative research in cultural studies, to test
theory against empirical data.
Liebes, Tamar (1996), 'Notes
on the struggle to define involvement in television viewing', Reseaux:
the French Journal of Communication 4:1. An analysis of the 'open text'
and levels of engagement.
Loshitzky, Yosefa (1996),
'Travelling culture/travelling television', Screen 37:4, Winter. An
interesting perspective on television and globalisation.
McRobbie, Angela (1997),
'Let's hear it for cultural studies', New Stateman Feb 14. A spirited
defence of cultstuds.
Mehl, Dominique (1996),
'The television of intimacy: meeting a social need', Reseaux: the French
Journal of Communication 4:1. The articulation of intimacy and personal
experience on French TV.
Roach, Colleen (1997), 'Cultural
imperialism and resistence in media theory and literary theory', Media,
Culture & Society 19. Citing John Fiske's shift to cultural 'struggle',
away from his celebration of 'resistence', this article calls for greater
engagement with political action.
Salomon, Gavriel (1997),
'Of mind and media: how culture's symbolic forms affect learning and
thinking', Phi Delta Kappan Jan. Examines how different symbolic forms
of representation are processed and understood by different sets of
mental skills and capacities.
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