The mass media and popular culture mediate the world for us by providing the images, information, stories, templates and categories we use to see and understand everything around us. Understanding Media Studies is a lively and thought-provoking text that looks at how and why the field of the media has taken on such a central role in contemporary society and culture. Using an up to date framework and current examples, this book guides students from square one to a complex understanding of the key concepts of media analysis. Focusing on the relations between the media and its audiences and users, the book examines the forms of address, strategies, literacies, and practices that characterize those relations. The authors have used recurrent case studies across the chapters to illustrate different concepts, helping students to view forms of media in a number of contexts. FEATURES * A clear structure and good sign-posting of key concepts allows students to easily navigate the text. * Case studies are integrated into the text to create a strong narrative flow. * Contemporary examples are used to demonstrate the relationship between bodies of theory and socio-cultural practices. * Glossary terms are included in margin notes throughout the text (with a full glossary at the end), making the material more accessible to students. * An integrated Companion Website accompanies the book--providing further information, case studies, and annotated weblinks.

Understanding Media Studies

Politics & Social Sciences

Schirato, Tony

Buettner, Angi

Jutel, Thierry

Stahl, Geoff

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe explores the phenomenon of Holocaust transfer, analysing the widespread practice of using the Holocaust and its imagery for the representation and recording of other historical events in various media sites. It investigates the use of Holocaust imagery in political and legal discourses, in critical thinking and philosophy, as well as in popular culture, to provide a fresh theorisation of the manner in which the Holocaust comes loose from its historical context and is applied to events and campaigns in the contemporary public sphere. Richly illustrated with concrete examples, including prominent, international animal rights activism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the genocide in Rwanda, this book traces the visual rhetoric of Holocaust imagery and its application to events other than the genocide of Jewish people With its discussion of the wide range of issues arising with this form of 'Holocaust-transfer', the generalization of the Holocaust as a metaphor in representations of catastrophe, as well as in other cultural locations, Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe will appeal to those working in the fields of holocaust studies, cultural and visual culture studies, sociology, and media studies.

Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe

Reference

Routledge

Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe: The Cultural Politics of Seeing

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