Description
Book SynopsisUsing examples such as "Big Brother" and "Billy Elliot", Bignell offers a comprehensive, intelligent and readable introduction into the critical approach in contemporary media studies. This second edition includes sections on men's style magazines, docusoaps and "reality TV".
Trade ReviewJonathan Bignell's comprehensive, intelligent and readable introduction to semiotics is ahead of the field in clarity, in its astutue use of contemporary examples, and in his openness to both the latest theoretical developments and the criticisms of semiotics theory launched over the last decade by media sociologists.|...best suited to upper-level undergraduates and keen graduate students in media/cultural studies, providing an accessible and lucid overview of things they should really know about. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Signs and myths
2. Advertisements
3. Magazines
4. Newspapers
5. Television news
6. Television realisms
7. Television fictions
8. Cinema
9. Interactive media
Bibliography
Index
