{"product_id":"canonic-texts-in-media-research-are-there-any-should-there-be-how-about-these-paperback-softback-9780745629346","title":"Canonic Texts in Media Research; Are There Any? Should There Be? How About These? (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745629346","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCanonic Texts in Media Research\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAre There Any? Should There Be? How About These?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElihu Katz (Edited by), E Katz (Author), John Durham Peters (Edited by), Tamar Liebes (Edited by), Avril Orloff (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745629346, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 October 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.3 x 1.7 cm, 0.39 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is an outstanding work. The original concept of the book is brilliant and the essays make good on it. I think the book will make waves in communication research and in the history of communication theory, both in the quality of the individual essays and in the reconsideration of the virtues and vices of there being such a thing as a canon in a discipline at all.\" Professor Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eARE THERE ANY? Many of us have our own canonic texts – the kind that won't \u003cbr\u003e go away. We tell them that their time has passed, that it's embarrassing \u003cbr\u003e they're still around, but they turn up repeatedly on our reading lists and \u003cbr\u003e in our bibliographies. They inspire us, haunt us, argue with us -- but they \u003cbr\u003e won't leave. Typically, we keep them to ourselves. \u003cp\u003eSHOULD THERE BE? Of course there should be, and there's no reason to hide\u003cbr\u003e them. Canons (and saints) should be shared, because they define fields and\u003cbr\u003e communities. These texts are not simply monuments, however. They are alive\u003cbr\u003e and breathing, standing the test of time by shedding old meanings and\u003cbr\u003e assuming new ones. The minimal care they need – occasional brushing off and\u003cbr\u003e bulb-changing – is well worth the trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHOW ABOUT THESE? The field of media studies is now more than 50 years old,\u003cbr\u003e and the contributors to this volume offer their own candidates for canonization. Each of the thirteen essays in the book presents a critical reading of one of these classics and debates its candidacy. You are invited to disagree. The texts are summarized, analysed and re-examined for their contemporary relevance. They are grouped together in schools (Chicago, Columbia, Frankfurt, Toronto, British Cultural Studies) to highlight the different perspectives that characterize the field.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book offers thirteen pairs of shoulders to stand on, the better to see the field of media studies. It will serve as an excellent teaching text for advanced students in communications and media and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContributors. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Shoulders to Stand On.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: The Columbia School\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical Research at Columbia: Lazarsfeld and Merton's “Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action” \u003ci\u003ePeter Simonson and Gabriel Weimann\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerzog’s “On Borrowed Experience:” Its Place in the Debate Over the Active Audience \u003ci\u003eTamar Liebes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection II: The Frankfurt School\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Subtlety of Horkheimer and Adorno: Reading “The Culture Industry” \u003ci\u003eJohn Durham Peters.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenjamin Contextualized: On “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” \u003ci\u003ePaddy Scannell\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRedeeming Consumption: On Lowenthal’s “The Triumph of the Mass Idols” \u003ci\u003eEva Illouz\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection III: The Chicago School\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity and Pluralism in Wirth’s “Consensus and Mass Communication” \u003ci\u003eEric Rothenbuhler.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Audience Is a Crowd, the Crowd Is a Public: Latter-Day Thoughts on Lang and Lang’s “MacArthur Day in Chicago” \u003ci\u003eElihu Katz and Daniel Dayan\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards the Virtual Encounter: Horton and Wohl’s “Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction” \u003ci\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection IV: The Toronto School\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarold Adams Innis and his Bias of Communication \u003ci\u003eMenahem Blondheim.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCanonic Anti-text: Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media \u003ci\u003eJoshua Meyrowitz\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection V: British Cultural Studies\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetroactive Enrichment: Raymond Williams's Culture and Society \u003ci\u003eJohn Durham Peters\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCanonization Achieved? Stuart Hall’s “Encoding\/Decoding” \u003ci\u003eMichael Gurevitch and Paddy Scannell.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterthoughts on Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure” in the Age of Cultural Studies \u003ci\u003eYosefa Loshitzky\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Electronics \u0026amp; communications engineering [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Electronics \u0026amp; communications engineering\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Electronics%20\u0026amp;%20communications%20engineering%20%5BTJ%5D%22\"\u003eTJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52475065696536,"sku":"9780745629346","price":17.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745629346.jpg?v=1785803981","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/canonic-texts-in-media-research-are-there-any-should-there-be-how-about-these-paperback-softback-9780745629346","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}