Making Sense of Media is a lively and accessible text that helps readers understand mass media and the texts they carry. Designed expressly for those interested in gaining a solid understanding of the media and how they work, it is an indispensable book.
- Offers a lively, accessible, and concise textbook to help readers understand mass media and their texts
- Covers seminal figures, concepts and scholarship in mass media studies, including Vladimir Propp, Mikhail Bakhtin, Raymond Williams, Fredric Jameson, and Stuart Hall
- Explores the ideas found in nineteen significant books that will provide useful insights and concepts for anyone interested in the study of the media
- Features chapter-by-chapter short articles by the author, that address an idea or theory in the particular book being discussed
- Includes charts, boxes features, exercises, and illustrations to round out analyses and engage the beginning student
- ISBN10 1405120169
- ISBN13 9781405120166
- Publish Date 6 August 2004
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 206
- Language English