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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