Dear AMCCS Members
Announcing two forthcoming Readers:
VISUAL CULTURE: THE READER
Edited by Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall
`This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture
fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its
major strength is its insistence on the importance of three central
aspects of the study of visual culture: the sign, the institution and
the viewing subject. It will provide readers, teachers and students
with an essential text in visual and cultural studies' - Janet Wolff,
University of Rochester
Visual Culture: The Reader provides an invaluable resource of over 33
key statements from a wide range of disciplines. Although underpinned
by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this Reader puts the
study
of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image right at centre
stage.
Divided into three parts, The Culture of the Visual, Regulating
Photographic Meaning, Representation and Difference, this Reader
enables students to make hitherto unmade connections between art,
film
and photography history and theory, semiotics, history, semiotics and
communications, media studies, and cultural theory
The key statements are from the work of: Louis Althusser, Roland
Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Homi Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Norman
Bryson,
Victor Burgin, Douglas Crimp, Elizabeth Cowie, Guy Debord, Mary Ann
Doane, Richard Dyer, Jessica Evans, Frantz Fanon, Otto Fenichel,
Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Jane Gaines, Dick Hebdige, Rosalind
Krauss, Kobena Mercer, Laura Mulvey, Mary Louise Pratt, Jacqueline
Rose, Allan Sekula, Don Slater, Kaja Silverman, Abigail
Solomon-Godeau, Susan Sontag, Jackie Stacey, John Tagg and Simon
Watney
Visual Culture: The Reader, sets the agenda for the study of Visual
Culture and will be an essential sourcebook for researchers and
students alike.
THE MEDIA READER: CONTINUITY AND TRANSFORMATION
Edited by Hugh Mackay and Tim O'Sullivan
`Alertness to the changing terms of debate, familiarity with the
latest scholarship and a shrewd, practical sense of what works in
teaching make this collection a very worthwhile addition to course
reading lists' - John Corner, University of Liverpool
The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation is an essential
sourcebook of key statements about transformations in media culture.
The Reader explores the technological, economic, social and cultural
processes implicated in the production, regulation, circulation and
consumption of media forms. It also provides theoretical approaches
and a range of case studies to past and present media transformations.
Divided into four parts: Mass Communications and the Modern World;
Understanding 'Transformations' in Media Culture; New Media for New
Times: Changing Television and Computer Cultures; Future Perfect? New
Networks, Identities and Politics.
The extracts are taken from the work of the following authors: Ien
Ang, Manuel Castells, Simon During, Patrice Flichy, Leslie Haddon,
Edward Herman, David Lyon, Brent MacGregor, Robert McChesney, Carolyn
Marvin, Joshua Meyrowitz, David Morley, Graham Murdock, Howard
Rheingold, Kevin Robins, Anthony Smith, Jeanette Steemers, John
Street, John Tomlinson, John Thompson, Sherry Turkle, Frank Webster
and Raymond Williams
This Reader provides a framework for examining many of the key
transformations in the contemporary media environment as such it will
be an invaluable resource for researchers and students alike.
Published by Sage Publications in association with The Open
University.
For further details see Sage's web site:http://www.sagepub.co.uk/
To request an inspection copy, please contact: Angela Shilling at
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