2nd Edition
The Craft of Criticism Critical Media Studies in Practice
List of Figures
Preface – Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney
Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Foreword – Michele Hilmes
Introduction, or How to Cook an Artichoke – Mary Celeste Kearney
1 Ideology – Ron Becker
2 Discourse – Rosalind Gill
3 Narrative – Jason Mittell
4 Genre - Amanda Ann Klein
5 Authorship and Auteurism – Cynthia Chris
6 Documentary and Unscripted Media – Daniel Marcus
7 History and Historiography - Michael Kackman
8 Visual Style – Jeremy G. Butler
9 Acting and Performance – Cynthia Baron
10 Representation - Mary Beltrán
11 Psychoanalytic Criticism - Todd McGowan
12 Cognitivism – Ted Nannicelli
13 Ethnography - Jessica Lingel and Mary L. Gray
14 Audiences - Matt Hills
15 Political Economy - Patrick Burkart
16 Media Policy - Bill Kirkpatrick
17 Production - Timothy Havens
18 National/Transnational/Global - Shanti Kumar
19 Cultural Geography - Victoria E. Johnson
20 Intertexts and Paratexts - Jonathan Gray
21 Stardom and Celebrity - Suzanne Leonard and Diane Negra
22 Sound – Jacob Smith and Neil Verma
23 Popular Music - Norma Coates
24 Sports Media – Evan Brody and Jennifer McClearen
25 Games and Gaming – Ashlee Bird and Matthew Thomas Payne
26 New Media - Madhavi Mallapragada
27 Social Media – Alexander Cho
28 Software - Eric Freedman
29 Digital Humanities – Miriam Posner (available online: www.routledge.com/ 9781032156507)
Index
Biography
Michael Kackman is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture (2005) and co-editor of Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (2010). His research centers on the history and historiography of American television, with particular attention to the shifting relationships between television and U.S. nationhood.
Mary Celeste Kearney is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media and Gender and Rock and the editor of The Gender and Media Reader as well as two volumes of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture. She edits the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media. Her current book project focuses on the first wave of U.S. teen-girl entertainment.
