Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media (Armitage John)(Paperback)

Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media (Armitage John)(Paperback)

Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (Ott Brian L.)(Paperback)

Luxury and Visual Culture (Armitage John)(Paperback)

From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the context of a global recession. But in contemporary digital culture does luxury still reside in material things, or rather the look of things? In this

Media semiotics (Bignell Jonathan)(Paperback)

Media semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to specific media forms. New material in this

Critical Terms for Media Studies (Mitchell W. J. T.)(Paperback)

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid

The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice (Kackman Michael)(Paperback)

With contributions from 30 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies. Chapters address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy, production studies, and contextual, multi-method

Ethics in Design and Communication: Critical Perspectives (Scherling Laura)(Paperback)

This timely collection brings together critical, analytic, historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in the practice of design.Designers face the same challenges as everyone else in the complex conditions of contemporary cultural life-choices about consumption, waste,

Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition (Youngblood Gene)(Paperback)

Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood's influential Expanded Cinema was the first serious treatment of video, computers, and holography as cinematic technologies. Long

Critical Disaster Studies (Remes Jacob A. C.)(Paperback)

This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not objective facts, but rather are interpretive fictions--and they shape the way people see the world

Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media (Pederson Claudia Costa)(Paperback)

In Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media, Claudia Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video games to challenge the idea that gaming is an exclusively white, heterosexual, male, corporatized leisure activity and reenvisions it as a catalyst for social

Study Skills for Art, Design and Media Students (Mann Stewart)(Paperback / softback)

Introducing Media Studies: A Graphic Guide (Sardar Ziauddin)(Paperback)

The media has become a condition of our existence. Introducing Media Studies explores media history and the complex relationship between the media, ideology, knowledge, and power, presenting a coherent view of the media industry, media theory, and methods in media

Art history: A critical introduction to its methods (Hatt Michael)(Paperback)

Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history's own history as a discipline from its

Pop Art a Critical History (Madoff Steven Henry)(Paperback)

Pop Art: A Critical History chronicles one of the most controversial art movements of the century. The anthology draws from a great range of sources, from the leading art magazines and art historical journals to newspapers and news magazines such as the New York Times, Life, and Newsweek. What

Media Industry Studies (Herbert Daniel)(Paperback)

The study of media industries has become a thriving subfield of media studies. It already comprises a diverse intellectual history, a range of fascinating questions and topics, and many theoretical and methodological frameworks.Media Industry Studies provides the roadmap to this vibrant area of

A Level Media Studies: The Essential Introduction (Bennett Pete)(Paperback)

A Level Media Studies is a comprehensive guide to the subject content of AS and A Level Media Studies, across all examining boards. It is specifically designed to meet the needs of both students and teachers with an accessible writing style, helpful notes on key theories and theorists and a range

Methods of Critical Discourse Studies (Wodak Ruth)(Paperback)

This is a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach, readers gain a rich understanding of the many angles into critical discourse analysis,

Studio Time: Future Thinking in Art and Design (Boelen Jan)(Paperback)

The ability to use imagination and envision future needs is crucial in art, design and architecture. Future thinking and making require imagination and capability to create narratives for near and far futures and the capacity to compose proposals to meet the imagined future needs. Future-oriented

Feminist Media Studies (Harvey Alison)(Paperback)

Feminist Media Studies is a cutting-edge introduction to the core and emerging theories, methods, and approaches in a field that has blossomed over the past twenty-five years. Adopting an intersectional approach - a framework concerning the interconnected character of oppression based on gender,

Critical Terms for Animal Studies (Gruen Lori)(Paperback)

Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies to explore these multi-faceted relationships in

Global Media Studies (Miller Toby)(Paperback)

Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive �how-to� guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and

Media Studies: Texts, Production, Context (Long Paul)(Paperback)

Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts (Hartley John)(Paperback)

Now in its fifth edition, this pioneering volume of Routledge's 'Key Guides' series offers clear explanations of key concepts, showing where they came from, what they are used for and why they provoke discussion or disagreement. The new edition is extensively revised to keep pace with rapidly

AQA GCSE Media Studies: Student Book (Slater Jerry)(Paperback / softback)

Written by practised Media Studies teachers with examining experience, this highly visual and colourful student book provides a theoretical framework for analysing the media, and is designed to stimulate and inspire students as they work through the course. Case studies, exam support and NEA