Media Reception Studies / Janet Staiger.
2005
P96.A83 S73 2005
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Title
Media Reception Studies / Janet Staiger.
Author
Staiger, Janet, author.
ISBN
9780814786741
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814786741.001.0001 doi
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P96.A83 S73 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.23
Summary
Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media.Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago School, early psychological approaches, Soviet theory, the Frankfurt School, mass communication research and critical theory, linguistics and semiotic theory, social-psychoanalytical research, cognitive psychology, and cultural studies. She offers these theories as a set of tools for understanding the complex relationships between films and their audiences, TV shows and their viewers. She explains such questions as the behavior of fans; the implications of gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity with regard to the media; the effect of violence, horror, and sexually explicit images on viewers; and the place of memory in spectatorship. Providing an organized and lucid introduction to a staggering amount of work, Media Reception Studies is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in understanding the effects of mass media.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Social Scientific Theories
3 Linguistic and Cultural Studies Theories
4 Fans and Fan Behaviors
5 Viewers of Stars, Cult Media, and Avant-Garde
6 Minorities and Media
7 Violence, Horror, and Sexually Explicit Images
8 Memories
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Social Scientific Theories
3 Linguistic and Cultural Studies Theories
4 Fans and Fan Behaviors
5 Viewers of Stars, Cult Media, and Avant-Garde
6 Minorities and Media
7 Violence, Horror, and Sexually Explicit Images
8 Memories
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author