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1. Introduction to Communication Studies

   3rd Edition

   By John Fiske

   Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

   This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela Wilson on the theme of ‘Structuralism and...

   Published September 28th 2010 by Routledge
2. Film as Social Practice

   3rd Edition

   By Graeme Turner

   Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

   Turner provides a clear introduction to major theoretical issues in the history of film production and film studies, examining the function of film as a national cultural industry, and its place in our popular culture....

   Published September 8th 1999 by Routledge
3. An Introduction to Language and Society

   2nd Edition

   By Martin Montgomery

   Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

   An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language. This second edition includes new material on gender, register, the speech community, language and subcultures, and language and...

   Published December 6th 1995 by Routledge
4. Understanding Radio

   2nd Edition

   By Andrew Crisell

   Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

   '... a highly imaginative and often very entertaining book ... which ... probably says more than any other available text about the limitations and possibilities of present forms of radio.' Professor Laurie Taylor on the first edition of Understanding Radio Understanding Radio is a fully revised...

   Published August 3rd 1994 by Routledge
5. A Primer For Daily Life

   By Susan Willis

   Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

   This study of the everyday components of daily life, as yet neglected by cultural theorists, argues that it is possibly through studying the mundane that we can learn the most about capitalist culture....

   Published September 11th 1991 by Routledge
6. Introduction to Communication Studies

   2nd Edition

   By John Fiske

   Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

   The second edition of this widely used introductory textbook updates the work to take accounts of developments in the last few years. John Fiske's study equips the reader with a range of methods of analysing examples of communication in our society, together with a critical awareness of the...

   Published October 10th 1990 by Routledge
7. Television Drama

   Agency, Audience and Myth

   By John Tulloch

   Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

   Views television drama from a cultural studies perspective, examining the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. Tulloch looks at genres such as soap opera, science fiction, sitcoms and police series....

   Published September 26th 1990 by Routledge
8. Understanding Television

   Edited by Andrew Goodwin, Garry Whannel

   Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

   Understanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres. It examines a number of programme categories, such as news, drama-documentary, sit-com, soap opera, sport and quizzes, and discusses aspects of the history of the organisation of...

   Published May 23rd 1990 by Routledge
9. On Video

   By Roy Armes

   Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

   Published May 4th 1988 by Routledge
10. Popular Culture

    The Metropolitan Experience

    By Iain Chambers

    Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

    Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space....

    Published September 3rd 1986 by Routledge