How to do Media and Cultural Studies
Jane Stokes
Language: English
Pages: 206
ISBN: B01K91HK5C
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
'Crammed with useful advice delivered in a straight-forward, no nonsense approach this text helps students to get off the starting blocs.... I recommend that all media dissertation students begin their project with it' - Simon Cottle, University of Melbourne
How to do Media and Cultural Studies provides an essential student guide to the process of research and writing. Aimed at any student about to start on an extended essay or dissertation it covers all the key stages - from formulating a research question to writing up.
How to do Media and Cultural Studies:
- Covers both quantitative and qualitative methods
- Includes separate chapters of how to analyze media and cultural texts, industries and audiences
- Works through a series of key examples of media and cultural research
- Includes a list of useful library resources and essential web sites
Suitable for use as a coursebook, this book can also be used independently by students. No other book provides such an accessible and practical guide. How to do Media and Cultural Studies is an essential purchase for all media, communication, film and cultural studies students.
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Meaning Humanities Humanist Interpretive Cultural studies Hermeneutics 3 The Two General Paradigms of C o n c e r n e d with: R o o t s in: Epistemology: Research M o s t typical of: Archetypal method: cultural studies, quantitative methods include content analysis, survey research and certain kinds of archive research. Quantitative research is often discounted by its opponents as being overly concerned with numbers and as being untheoretical and uncritical. Qualitative research, in
general information Most public organizations and several private companies publish detailed information about their activities and are only too willing to provide these to 44 Sources and Resources students. If you are interested in the work of a particular organization, call or write and ask them to send you their press pack. The public relations or market research departments of most companies provide information of a general nature to people who want to know more about how they work. The
with how people struggle to survive and the moral choices people have to make to survive. The gangster film glorifies the gangster, even if he is killed off in the end. The bravado and wit of the man taking a stand against the law are admired in the genre. Ideologically, it celebrates the individual hero. It shows groups as providing solidarity and companionship, but, ultimately, proves that no one can live outside the law for long. The genre was significantly rewritten by The Godfather series,
recurrent themes are identified and analysed with careful and detailed illustration from over one hundred musical films. Feuer argues that the musical has much in common with 'folk art' of a preindustrial era, yet it is a mechanical medium in which the relationship between the audience and performers is temporally and spatially remote. According to Feuer, the musical works to reconstruct the sense of community we have lost in the industrial age by recreating that lost spirit of camaraderie on the
Work Dayan, Daniel, 2 0 0 1 . The peculiar public of television. Media, Society. Volume 2 3 , number 6: pp. 7 4 3 - 7 6 5 . Culture and Note that the titles of articles in journals and of essays in collected volumes are given without capitalization; however, the titles of books and journals are capitalized. Sometimes the words 'volume' and 'number' are omitted and the volume number italicized or emboldened as in the Sage style used in the bibliography of this book. Newspaper articles. The