Making Sense of Media: Key Texts in Media and Cultural Studies

Introduction: The Media in Our Lives:.

1. Saussure, Course in General Linguistics:.

In Practice: King Andrew the First.

2. Roland Barthes, Mythologies:.

In Practice: A Semiotic Analysis of a Sea Shell.

3. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By:.

In Practice: Love is a Game.

4. Aristotle, Poetics:.

In Practice: Theories on Comedy.

5. Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction to Poetics:.

In Practice: What Happens in Hamlet.

6. Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale:.

In Practice: Understanding Genres.

7. Janice Radway, Reading the Romance:.

In Practice: Write Your Own Romance Novel.

8. Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck:.

In Practice: Hypotheses on Pac-Man and Video Games.

9. Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination:.

In Practice: Parody and Laughter.

10. Yuri Lotman, Semiotics of Cinema:.

In Practice: The “1984” Macintosh Commercial.

11. Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form:.

In Practice: Rashomontage.

12. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature:.

In Practice: The Prisoner and “The General”.

13. Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World:.

In Practice: Cells and Terror.

14. De Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life:.

In Practice: Resistance Through Ridicule.

15. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media:.

In Practice: The Financial Times.

16. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism:.

In Practice: A Postmodern Perspective on Madonna.

17. Michael Thompson, Richard Ellis, Aaron Wildavksy, Cultural Theory:.

In Practice: Political Cultures and Popular Culture.

18. bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation:.

In Practice: Krazy Kat and “Racial” Memory.

19. Stuart Hall, “The Work of Representation”:.

In Practice: 9/11 as Representation.

20. Afterword: A Confessional:.

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