{"product_id":"canonic-texts-in-media-research-9780745629346","title":"Canonic Texts in Media Research","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARE THERE ANY? Many of us have our own canonic texts -- the kind that wona t     go away. We tell them that their time has passed, that ita s embarrassing     theya re still around, but they turn up repeatedly on our reading lists and     in our bibliographies. They inspire us, haunt us, argue with us ---- but they     wona t leave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an outstanding work. The original concept of the book is brilliant and the essays make good on it. I think the book will make waves in communication research and in the history of communication theory, both in the quality of the individual essays and in the reconsideration of the virtues and vices of there being such a thing as a canon in a discipline at all.\" Professor Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Shoulders to Stand On.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: The Columbia School\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical Research at Columbia: Lazarsfeld and Merton's “Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action” \u003ci\u003ePeter Simonson and Gabriel Weimann\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerzog’s “On Borrowed Experience:” Its Place in the Debate Over the Active Audience \u003ci\u003eTamar Liebes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection II: The Frankfurt School\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Subtlety of Horkheimer and Adorno: Reading “The Culture Industry” \u003ci\u003eJohn Durham Peters.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenjamin Contextualized: On “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” \u003ci\u003ePaddy Scannell\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRedeeming Consumption: On Lowenthal’s “The Triumph of the Mass Idols” \u003ci\u003eEva Illouz\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection III: The Chicago School\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity and Pluralism in Wirth’s “Consensus and Mass Communication” \u003ci\u003eEric Rothenbuhler.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Audience Is a Crowd, the Crowd Is a Public: Latter-Day Thoughts on Lang and Lang’s “MacArthur Day in Chicago” \u003ci\u003eElihu Katz and Daniel Dayan\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards the Virtual Encounter: Horton and Wohl’s “Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction” \u003ci\u003eDon Handelman\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection IV: The Toronto School\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarold Adams Innis and his Bias of Communication \u003ci\u003eMenahem Blondheim.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCanonic Anti-text: Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media \u003ci\u003eJoshua Meyrowitz\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection V: British Cultural Studies\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetroactive Enrichment: Raymond Williams's Culture and Society \u003ci\u003eJohn Durham Peters\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCanonization Achieved? Stuart Hall’s “Encoding\/Decoding” \u003ci\u003eMichael Gurevitch and Paddy Scannell.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterthoughts on Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure” in the Age of Cultural Studies \u003ci\u003eYosefa Loshitzky\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404361146711,"sku":"9780745629346","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745629346.jpg?v=1730486221","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/canonic-texts-in-media-research-9780745629346","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}