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Author:   Michael Kackman (University of Notre Dame, USA) ,  Mary Celeste Kearney
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.730kg
ISBN:  

9780415716307

ISBN 10:   0415716306
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   29 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   9781032156507
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword – Michele Hilmes Introduction, or How to Cook an Artichoke –Mary Celeste Kearney PART I PRIMARY METHODS 1 Ideology – Ron Becker 2 Discourse – Rosalind Gill 3 Narrative – Jason Mittell 4 Non-Fiction Media – Daniel Marcus 5 Visual Style – Jeremy Butler 6 Sound – Jacob Smith 7 Acting and Performance – Cynthia Baron 8 Representation - Mary Beltrán 9 Authorship and Auteurism – Cynthia Chris 10 Political Economy - Patrick Burkart 11 Media Policy - Bill Kirkpatrick 12 Psychoanalytic Criticism - Todd McGowan 13 Cognitivism - Ted Nannicelli 14 Ethnography - Jessa Lingel & Mary Gray PART II Synthetic/Multiperspectival Approaches 15 Audiences - Matt Hills 16 Genre - Amanda Ann Klein 17 Intertexts and Paratexts - Jonathan Gray 18 Stardom and Celebrity - Suzanne Leonard & Diane Negra 19 Cultural Geography - Victoria E. Johnson 20 National/Transnational/Global - Shanti Kumar 21 History and Historiography - Michael Kackman 22 Production - Timothy Havens PART III Emergent and Challenging Objects 23 Popular Music - Norma Coates 24 New Media - Madhavi Mallapragada 25 Games and Gaming - Matthew Thomas Payne & Nina B. Huntemann 26 Software - Eric Freedman 27 Digital Humanities - Miriam Posner Contributors’ Biographies

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An instant classic from a stellar group of contributors who lucidly explain the key concepts and methods of critical media studies. Both innovative and practical, The Craft of Criticism promises to become a touchstone for the field and an essential resource for the classroom. -Michael Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara

Author Information

Michael Kackman is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches courses in the history and criticism of U.S. television, Cold War cultural history, nationhood and political culture, and history and memory practices in everyday life. He is the author of Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and co-editor of Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (Routledge, 2010). Mary Celeste Kearney is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006) and Gender and Rock (Oxford, 2017). She is editor of The Gender and Media Reader (Routledge, 2011) and Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (Peter Lang, 2011), as well as co-editor (with Morgan Blue) of Mediated Girlhoods’ second volume (Peter Lang, 2018). She is academic editor of the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media, and serves on the boards of several academic journals.

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