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

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

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

Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (Thylstrup Nanna Bonde)(Paperback)

Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (Mitchell W. J. T.)(Paperback)

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

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

Landscape and Power, Second Edition (Mitchell W. J. T.)(Paperback)

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This second

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

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (Mitchell W. J. T.)(Paperback)

'[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read.'-Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Jenkins Henry)(Paperback)

Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where

Bedford Glossary of Critical & Literary Terms (Murfin Ross C.)(Paperback)

The Bedford Glossary of Critical & Literary Terms is a thorough reference book, helping today's students define hundreds of literay and critical terms in way that's relevant to them

Frankenstein (Shelley Mary)(Paperback)

Combining critical essays, contextual documents, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms with the original 1831 text, Frankenstein is supported by additional resources which help you think critically about the iconic

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

Teorie obrazu - W. J. T. Mitchell - e-kniha

eBook:,Publikace je souborem esejí, které se věnují jednotlivým aspektům vztahu textu a obrazu. Mitchell rozebírá reprezentace obrazové i verbální, souvislosti obrazu a jazyka, a to vše dokládá na velmi široké škále praktických ukázek z každodenního života. Základem

Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (Rycroft Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Provides definitions and critical discussions of the technical terms used in

Thirdspace (Soja Edward W.)(Paperback)

Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret space and the embracing spatiality of human life

Professional Studies in Architecture: A Primer (Brookhouse Stephen)(Paperback)

For students of architecture, this primer defines the critical subject area of professional studies which runs as a thread through the new RIBA validation criteria for Parts 1 and 2. Suitable across the whole 5-year Masters Architecture degree course, it gives students the conceptual resources and

The Media Student's Book (Branston Gill)(Paperback)

The Media Student's Book is a comprehensive introduction for students of media studies. It covers all the key topics and provides a detailed, lively and accessible guide to concepts and debates. Now in its fifth edition, this bestselling textbook has been thoroughly revised, re-ordered and

Disabled Children's Childhood Studies: Critical Approaches in a Global Context (Curran T.)(Paperback)

This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts oppose the global imposition of problematic views of disability and childhood and instead, offer an open discussion of responsive and ethical research

Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound (Bennett Susan)(Paperback)

Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up the study of theatrical production and live

Keywords for Comics Studies (Fawaz Ramzi)(Paperback)

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies Across more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The

Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition (Nelson Robert S.)(Paperback)

'Art' has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's Fountain. But questions about the categories of 'art' and 'art history' acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and other intellectual projects

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

The Media Education Manifesto (Buckingham David)(Paperback)

In the age of social media, fake news and data-driven capitalism, the need for critical understanding is more urgent than ever. Half-baked ideas about 'media literacy' will lead us nowhere: we need a comprehensive and coherent educational approach. We all need to think critically about how media