The media reader

Today media studies occupy an increasingly strategic position within the academic curriculum.  This new anthology of writings on film and television, all written during the 1980s, throws the net widely to include discussions of a variety of media from around the world.  The book addresses the pressing questions of cultural identity, deals with a range of political and economical issues, and discusses the pleasures which film and television can provide.Taken together, these essays provide a challenging and stimulating view of contemporary media.

The Media Reader

Alvarado, Manuel

Thompson, John O.

Humor & Entertainment

British Film Inst

<p>This elegantly argued book is the first to apply recent studies of metaphor within the fields of linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, to English literary studies. The current explosion of interest in metaphor within these fields has as yet had little impact on the study of English literature, where a confused and impressionistic notion of "imagery" still reigns despite dissatisfaction with its lack of methodology and inappropriateness to certain texts. This book sets out to effect a meeting, or rather a series of meetings, between a powerfully metaphorical text -- the Shakespearean canon -- and a number of hte most advanced "extraliterary" theories of language and meaning.</p>

Shakespeare: Meaning & Metaphor

Literature & Fiction

Thompson, Ann

Dramas & Plays

Univ of Iowa Pr

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