Tony Thwaites, Lloyd Davis, Warwick Mules

Introducing Cultural and Media Studies

A Semiotic Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This core textbook offers a concise, direct and easy-to-use introduction to how semiotics can be employed to understand culture. It adopts a practical and versatile approach to cultural analysis, beginning not with an abstract body of theory but with a number of examples of social sign use which are examined critically using basic semiotic terms and concepts to build up the reader's analytic vocabulary in a practical way. This book is designed to be read in several ways. First of all, it offers a structured approach to its subject with successive chapters reconsidering and building upon issues raised in earlier chapters. The layout of the text supports alternative pathways through the material, however.
Written principally with the undergraduate student reader in mind, this is the essential research tool for students and lecturers. It is the ideal international starting-point for a very wide range of courses both in cultural and media studies and related subjects such asfilm studies, literature and sociology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education UK / Red Globe Press / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-97247-2
• 2002
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9780333972472
• ISBN-10: 0333972473
• Artikelnr.: 21366915

Autorenporträt

TONY THWAITES teaches and writes on cultural studies and literary studies at the University of Queensland. His most recent book is a study of James Joyce, Joycean Temporalities: Debts, Promises and Countersignatures (University Press of Florida, 2001). LLOYD DAVIS is Reader in English at the University of Queensland. He is the author of a number of essays and books on literary studies. He is also one of the co-authors of Structures and Strategies: An Introduction to Academic Writing (Palgrave, 1996). WARWICK MULES teaches and reads in cultural studies and critical theory at Central Queensland University. He has numerous publications in the area of visuality and culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Reading This Book.- Introduction: Tools for Cultural Studies.- Some Aspects of Signs.- Signs and Systems.- Interactions of Signs.- Texts and Textualities.- Genre and Intertextuality.- Narrative.- Discourse and Medium.- Ideology.- Systems and Strategies.- Other Directions.- Bibliography.- Index.