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

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

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

An Introduction to Criticism: Literature - Film - Culture (Ryan Michael)(Paperback)

An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism such

The Ends of Art Criticism (Bickers Patricia)(Paperback)

An engaging critical discussion of the aims and status of contemporary art criticism written by a highly respected art critic of many years'

The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism (Latham Sean)(Paperback)

Bringing together 20 foundational texts in contemporary modernist criticism in one accessible volume, this book explores the debates that have transformed the field of modernist studies at the turn of the millennium and into the 21st century. The New Modernist Studies Reader features chapters

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

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

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

An Experiment in Criticism (Canto Classics) (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback)

Amid the complex welter of current critical theories, C. S. Lewis's wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of

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

Urban Studies Inside/Out: Theory, Method, Practice (Leitner Helga)(Paperback)

At a time of intense theoretical debates in urban studies, the research practices underlying such theories have not received the same attention. This original and creative text interrogates the methodological underpinnings of contemporary urban scholarship, with reference to different global sites

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

Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Sturken Marita)(Paperback)

Practices of Looking, Third Edition, bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The third edition has been updated to represent the contemporary visual cultural

Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being (Hughes Ted)(Paperback / softback)

This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - dramatic and poetic - as a single, tightly integrated, evolving

Psychosocial and Relationship-Based Practice (Megele Claudia)(Paperback)

This book offers a critical multidisciplinary analysis of case studies of social work interventions from a psychosocial and relationship-based

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

Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled (Raengo Alessandra)(Paperback)

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The third book in the series, Critical

Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World (Carmody Pdraig)(Paperback)

Taking a critical and historical view, this text explores the theory and changing practice of international development. It provides an overview of how the field has evolved and the concrete impacts of this on the ground on the lives of people in the Global South. Development Theory and Practice

Critical Religious Education in Practice: A Teacher's Guide for the Secondary Classroom (Easton Christina)(Paperback)

Critical Religious Education in Practice serves as an accessible handbook to help teachers put Critical Religious Education (CRE) into practice. The book offers straightforward guidance, unpicking some of the key difficulties that teachers encounter when implementing this high-profile pedagogical

Aesthetics - Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism (Beardsley Monroe)(Paperback / softback)

Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing (Sexton Jared)(Paperback)

This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President George W. Bush's 2001 announcement of the War on Terror and President Barack Obama's 2009 acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. It argues that

Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (Polanyi Michael)(Paperback)

The publication of Personal Knowledge in 1958 shook the science world, as Michael Polanyi took aim at the long-standing ideals of rigid empiricism and rule-bound logic. Today, Personal Knowledge remains one of the most significant philosophy of science books of the twentieth century, bringing the

The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism (Collini Stefan)(Paperback)

This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page' was in practice bound up with

The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen (Ruhlman Michael)(Paperback)

In The Elements of Cooking, New York Times bestselling author Michael Ruhlman deconstructs the essential knowledge of the kitchen to reveal what professional chefs know only after years of training and experience. With alphabetically ordered entries and eight beautifully written essays, Ruhlman