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Book Movies as Mass Communication

Download or read book Movies as Mass Communication written by Garth Jowett and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of the first edition of Movies as Mass Communication in 1980, cinema has been incorporated into academic discussions of the mainstream mass media. Most introductory `media and society' courses now include a section on the cinema. In this second edition, Professors Jowett and Linton address both the persistent tendency to position the cinema as a separate form of entertainment with a specialized audience, and the extensive interrelationships between the cinema and other media. The authors also examine the economic, sociological, psychological and political aspects of film.

Book Journalism in the Movies

Download or read book Journalism in the Movies written by Matthew C. Ehrlich and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cynical portrayals like The Front Page to the nuanced complexity of All the President’s Men, and The Insider, movies about journalists and journalism have been a go-to film genre since the medium's early days. Often depicted as disrespectful, hard-drinking, scandal-mongering misfits, journalists also receive Hollywood's frequent respect as an essential part of American life. Matthew C. Ehrlich tells the story of how Hollywood has treated American journalism. Ehrlich argues that films have relentlessly played off the image of the journalist as someone who sees through lies and hypocrisy, sticks up for the little guy, and serves democracy. He also delves into the genre's always-evolving myths and dualisms to analyze the tensions—hero and oppressor, objectivity and subjectivity, truth and falsehood—that allow journalism films to examine conflicts in society at large.

Book Movies As Mass Communication

Download or read book Movies As Mass Communication written by Garth Jowett and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of the first edition of Movies as Mass Communication in 1980, there have been some encouraging signs that movies are now being incorporated into academic discussions of the mainstream mass media. Most introductory 'media and society' textbooks now include a chapter on the movies. In this Second Edition, Professors Jowett and Linton address both the persistent tendency to position movies as a separate form of 'entertainment' with a specialized audience, and the extensive interrelationsips between movies and the other media. Covering the movies as one segment of the mass communications infrastructure, the authors examine the economic, sociological, psychological and political aspects of film. As a CommText series volume, the second edition of Movies as Mass Communication is an updated, concise, readable text for mass communication and film studies courses.

Book Children and the Movies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Garth Jowett
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1996-01-26
  • ISBN : 9780521482929
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Children and the Movies written by Garth Jowett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy analyzes the first and most comprehensive study of the influence of movies on American youth, the Payne Fund Studies. First published in 1933, these studies are intrinsically important for their insights and conclusions regarding the effects of movies on behaviour. They are, moreover, also an important landmark of modern social science research, demonstrating the rapid evolution of this discipline in American academic institutions over the first three decades of the century.

Book Movies As Mass Communication

Download or read book Movies As Mass Communication written by Garth Jowett and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of the first edition of Movies as Mass Communication in 1980, there have been some encouraging signs that movies are now being incorporated into academic discussions of the mainstream mass media. Most introductory 'media and society' textbooks now include a chapter on the movies. In this Second Edition, Professors Jowett and Linton address both the persistent tendency to position movies as a separate form of 'entertainment' with a specialized audience, and the extensive interrelationsips between movies and the other media. Covering the movies as one segment of the mass communications infrastructure, the authors examine the economic, sociological, psychological and political aspects of film. As a CommText series volume, the second edition of Movies as Mass Communication is an updated, concise, readable text for mass communication and film studies courses.

Book Mass Communication

Download or read book Mass Communication written by Ralph E. Hanson and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 1221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform your students into smart, savvy consumers of the media. Mass Communication: Living in a Media World (Ralph E. Hanson) provides students with comprehensive yet concise coverage of all aspects of mass media, along with insightful analysis, robust pedagogy, and fun, conversational writing. In every chapter of this bestselling text, students will explore the latest developments and current events that are rapidly changing the media landscape. This newly revised Sixth Edition is packed with contemporary examples, engaging infographics, and compelling stories about the ways mass media shape our lives. From start to finish, students will learn the media literacy principles and critical thinking skills they need to become savvy media consumers.

Book Ronald Reagan in Hollywood

Download or read book Ronald Reagan in Hollywood written by Stephen Vaughn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between the motion picture industry and American politics.

Book Hollywood Censored

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory D. Black
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780521565929
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Hollywood Censored written by Gregory D. Black and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a series of sex scandals rocked the film industry in 1922, movie moguls hired Will Hays to clear the image of movies. Hays tried a variety of ways to regulate movies before adopting what became known as the production code. Written in 1930 by a St Louis priest, the code stipulated that movies stress proper behaviour, respect for government, and 'Christian values'. The Catholic Church reinforced these efforts by launching its Legion of Decency in 1934. Intended to force Hays and Hollywood to censor films, the Legion of Decency engineered the appointment of Joseph Breen as head of the Production Code Administration. For the next three decades, Breen, Hays, and the Catholic Legion of Decency virtually controlled the content of all Hollywood films.

Book Introduction To Mass Media

Download or read book Introduction To Mass Media written by M. H. Syed and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass Media Has Traversed A Long Journey From Crude Forms To The Modern Advanced Age. This Book Is Devised As An Introductory Text To The Mass Media.Some Crucial Issues Are Highlighted In Pros And Cons. The Main Topics Included Herein Are- Introduction; Media S Status In Society; Institutional Management; Aims And Objectives; Concepts Of News; Origin Of News; Evolution Of News; News Formation; News Display; Editing The News; And Job Of Editor; Etc.Certainly, This Book Will Prove Of Utmost Use To Academics And Professionals In The Field.

Book Mass Communication

Download or read book Mass Communication written by Ralph E. Hanson and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling Mass Communication: Living in a Media World presents a highly accessible introduction to mass communication that equips students with the critical thinking skills to become savvy media consumers. To help students better retain the material, author Ralph E. Hanson uses a storytelling approach that weaves in examples drawn from everyday life. Readers are encouraged to consider the media industry from the inside out and, in doing so, discover the many dimensions of mass communication that operate in our society. The thoroughly revised Eighth Edition highlights how social and digital media, video games, and the COVID-19 pandemic are changing the face of media. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video on the changing roles of mobile devices. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

Book High Concept

    Book Details:
  • Author : Justin Wyatt
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-07-22
  • ISBN : 029278659X
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book High Concept written by Justin Wyatt and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Spielberg once said, "I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a pretty good movie." Spielberg's comment embodies the essence of the high concept film, which can be condensed into one simple sentence that inspires marketing campaigns, lures audiences, and separates success from failure at the box office. This pioneering study explores the development and dominance of the high concept movie within commercial Hollywood filmmaking since the late 1970s. Justin Wyatt describes how box office success, always important in Hollywood, became paramount in the era in which major film studios passed into the hands of media conglomerates concerned more with the economics of filmmaking than aesthetics. In particular, he shows how high concept films became fully integrated with their marketing, so that a single phrase ("Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...") could sell the movie to studio executives and provide copy for massive advertising campaigns; a single image or a theme song could instantly remind potential audience members of the movie, and tie-in merchandise could generate millions of dollars in additional income.

Book National Identity in Global Cinema

Download or read book National Identity in Global Cinema written by C. Celli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When themes of historical and cultural identity appear and repeat in popular film, it is possible to see the real pulse of a nation and comprehend a people, their culture and their history. National Identity in Global Cinema describes how national cultures as reflected in popular cinema can truly explain the world, one country at a time.

Book Media of Mass Communication

Download or read book Media of Mass Communication written by John Vivian and published by Pearson Educacion. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated in its eleventh edition, The Media of Mass Communication engages readers in the pursuit of greater media literacy and provides accessible insight into the important issues that confront students as consumers and purveyors of mass media. Through exceptional coverage of contemporary media issues and trends, including the on-going transformations in mass media, this text balances the principles and foundations of media literacy with lively examples, streamlined coverage, and a robust media package.

Book Gramsci and Media Literacy

Download or read book Gramsci and Media Literacy written by Erika Engstrom and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking about TV and the Movies offers a series of contemporary media analyses that use Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explore how dominant ideologies in media delivery, historical storytelling, and gender in today’s mass media environment become the commonsense viewpoints that maintain power structures in civil society. Through a media literacy approach, case studies of ideological delivery through television and film illustrate why Gramscian media theory serves as a valuable tool for revealing the many ways hegemonic thought operates in the media sphere and in everyday life, and they offer hope for counterhegemonic understandings.

Book Hollywood s Overseas Campaign

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Charles Jarvie
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1992-08-28
  • ISBN : 9780521415668
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Hollywood s Overseas Campaign written by Ian Charles Jarvie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's Overseas Campaign: The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920-1950 examines how Hollywood movies became one of the most successful U.S. exports, a phenomenon that began during World War I. Focusing on Canada, the market closest to the United States, on Great Britain, the biggest market, and on the U.S. movie industry itself, Ian Jarvie documents how fear of this mass medium's impact and covetousness toward its profits motivated many nations to resist the cultural invasion and economic drain that Hollywood movies represented.

Book The Dynamics of Mass Communication

Download or read book The Dynamics of Mass Communication written by Joseph R. Dominick and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the field of mass communication, covering all the major media, from books, magazines and newspapers, to radio, film, TV, cable and the new technologies. Illustrated with examples and anecdotes, the book explores international communication and career opportunities in the media.

Book The Play Theory of Mass Communication

Download or read book The Play Theory of Mass Communication written by William Stephenson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature on mass communication is now dominated by "objective sociological "approaches. What makes the work of Stephenson so unusual is his starting points: his frank willingness to adopt a "subjective "and "psychological "approach to the study of mass communication. In short, this is an internal analysis of how communication processes are absorbed by individuals. The theory of play is not a doctrine of frivolity, but rather a way in which Stephenson gets at such sensitive areas of communication theory as what is screened out and why. Without a notion of the play element in communication one would be led to imagine that every televised docudrama would be immediately lived out by every adolescent. Clearly, this is not the case. People can distinguish quite well between imaginary and real events in mass communication contexts. "The Play Theory of Mass Communication "is a work that studies subjective play, how communication serves the cause of self-enhancement and personal pleasure, and the role of entertainment as an end in itself. In short, for those who are tired of cliche-ridden volumes on the political hidden messages and meanings of communication, or the economic management of media decisions, this volume will come as a refreshment, a piece of entertainment as well as instruction. But with all the emphasis "on "aspects, Stephenson's volume is shrewdly political. He takes up themes ranging from the reduction! of international tensions to the happily alienated worker to such pedestrian events as the reporting of foreign Soviet dignitaries in their visits to democratic cultures. This is, in short, an urbane, wise book--sophisticated in its methodology and critical in its theorizing.