Studies in Culture and Communication

The Ideological Octopus

By Justin Lewis

Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

First published in 1992...

Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge

Introduction to Communication Studies

3rd Edition

By John Fiske

Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela Wilson on the theme of ‘Structuralism and...

Published September 28th 2010 by Routledge

Introduction to Communication Studies

2nd Edition

By John Fiske

Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

The second edition of this widely used introductory textbook updates the work to take accounts of developments in the last few years. John Fiske's study equips the reader with a range of methods of analysing examples of communication in our society, together with a critical awareness of the...

Published September 10th 2002 by Routledge

Film as Social Practice

3rd Edition

By Graeme Turner

Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

Turner provides a clear introduction to major theoretical issues in the history of film production and film studies, examining the function of film as a national cultural industry, and its place in our popular culture....

Published September 8th 1999 by Routledge

An Introduction to Language and Society

2nd Edition

By Martin Montgomery

Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language. This second edition includes new material on gender, register, the speech community, language and subcultures, and language and...

Published December 6th 1995 by Routledge

Understanding Radio

2nd Edition

By Andrew Crisell

Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

'... a highly imaginative and often very entertaining book ... which ... probably says more than any other available text about the limitations and possibilities of present forms of radio.' Professor Laurie Taylor on the first edition of Understanding Radio Understanding Radio is a fully revised...

Published August 3rd 1994 by Routledge

A Primer For Daily Life

By Susan Willis

Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

This study of the everyday components of daily life, as yet neglected by cultural theorists, argues that it is possibly through studying the mundane that we can learn the most about capitalist culture....

Published September 11th 1991 by Routledge

Television Drama

Agency, Audience and Myth

By John Tulloch

Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

Views television drama from a cultural studies perspective, examining the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. Tulloch looks at genres such as soap opera, science fiction, sitcoms and police series....

Published September 26th 1990 by Routledge

Understanding Television

Edited by Andrew Goodwin, Garry Whannel

Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

Understanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres. It examines a number of programme categories, such as news, drama-documentary, sit-com, soap opera, sport and quizzes, and discusses aspects of the history of the organisation of...

Published May 23rd 1990 by Routledge

On Video

By Roy Armes

Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

Though video systems are now growing ever more accessible, and practical video work is undertaken at every level of education, this is the first book-length historical and theoretical study of the medium. On Video explores video on two levels: first, it examines the relationship between...

Published May 4th 1988 by Routledge