Media/cultural Studies: Critical Approaches

Rhonda Hammer, Douglas Kellner

Peter Lang, 2009 - Social Science - 644 pages

This anthology is designed to assist teachers and students in learning how to better understand and interpret our common culture and everyday life. With a focus on contemporary media, consumer, and digital culture, this book combines classic and original writings by both leading and rising scholars in the field. The chapters present key theories, concepts, and methodologies of critical cultural and media studies, as well as cutting-edge research into new media. Sections on teaching media/cultural studies and concrete case studies provide practical examples that illuminate contemporary culture, ranging from new forms of digital media and consumer culture to artifacts from TV and film, including Barbie and Big Macs, soap operas, Talk TV, Facebook, and YouTube. The lively articles show that media/cultural studies is an exciting and relevant arena, and this text should enable students and citizens to become informed readers and critics of their culture and society.

Contents

• WHAT IS MEDIACULTURAL STUDIES?: 1
• Whats in a Name? One More Time: 25
• Stuart Hall on Representation and Ideology: 49
• Edward Herman: 63
• Cultural Studies Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Higher Education: 88
• The Power of New Media Networks: 107
• TEACHING MEDIACULTURAL STUDIES: 123
• Reflections on Teaching: 124
• Teaching Popular Music: 152
• New Media Literacy: 194
• Digital Tools for Collecting Connecting Constructing Responding: 206
• DOING MEDIACULTURAL STUDIES: 229
• Alternative Histories: 238
• The Worlds Lovin: 251
• The Bitch Still Has Everything: 270
• Vulture Culture Youth and Television: 280
• Growing Up Gay Today: 296
• Whats Wrong with a Little Objectification?: 313
• The Magical World of Daytime Soap Operas: 324
• The Media and the Plight: 374
• The Rhetoric of Pleasure and Danger in Feminist: 392
• Bridget Jones and the New Gender: 411
• L A Autobiography: 423
• Narrative Structure: 440
• American Militarism Hollywood and Media Culture: 457
• Another Ethnic Autobiography? Childhood and the Cultural: 482
• Ethnic Chic and the Displacement of South Asian Female Sexuality: 501
• The Dual Image of Asian American: 516
• Media Sports Metaphors and Presidential: 537
• EMERGENT DIGITAL CULTURES: 557
• Evil Bert Laden: 576
• Childrens Culture: 587
• Critical Perspectives on Social Network Sites: 602
• Some Critical Reflections: 615
• List of Contributors: 637

About the author

The Editors: Rhonda Hammer is Lecturer and Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in women's studies; education; communications; and film, television, and digital media. Dr. Hammer has co-authored Rethinking Media Literacy and is the author of Anti-Feminism and Family Terrorism: A Critical Feminist Perspective, as well as a number of articles and chapters on feminisms, globalization, media, and critical cultural studies. She has also been actively involved in grassroots and educational video production for many years.
Douglas Kellner is George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair at UCLA and is the author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including works in cultural studies such as Media Culture and Media Spectacle; a trilogy of books on postmodern theory with Steve Best; and a trilogy of books on the media and the Bush administration, titled Grand Theft 2000, From 9/11 to Terror War, and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy. Kellner's latest book is Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Media/cultural Studies: Critical Approaches
• Editors: Rhonda Hammer, Douglas Kellner
• Publisher: Peter Lang, 2009
• ISBN: 0820495263, 9780820495262
• Length: 644 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies; Social Science / Popular Culture