A Companion to Media Studies

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A Companion to Media Studies

Angharad N. Valdivia

Description

A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by an international team to provide an overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields.

Tackles a variety of central concepts and controversies, organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, media content, media audiences, effects, and futures
Provides an accessible point of entry into this expansive and interdisciplinary field
Includes the writings of renowned media scholars, including McQuail, Schiller, Gallagher, Wartella, and Bryant
Now available in paperback for the course market.

About the Author

Angharad N. Valdivia is Research Associate Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is editor of Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities (1995) and author of A Latina in the Land of Hollywood and Other Essays on Media Culture (2000).

Features

Brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars in the most comprehensive collection on media studies to date.
Tackles a variety of central concepts and controversies, organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, media content, media audiences, effects, and futures.
Provides an accessible point of entry into this expansive and interdisciplinary field.
Includes the writings of renowned media scholars, including McQuail, Schiller, Gallagher, Wartella, and Bryant.

Series

Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

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