"In by far the best book I have seen on this subject since Marcuse, Andrew Tolson examines the way in which schools, social and work hierarchies, and the requirements of the economic order lock men in modes of thought and behavior which don't work any longer in their personal lives. His working-class boyhood gives the analysis a particularly valuable breadth, so that we see how the new defensive insecurity is not confines to those men able to articulate it...." -- The Times Educational Supplement

The Limits of Masculinity: Male Identity and the Liberated Woman (Harper Torchbooks)

Tolson, Andrew

Harper&Row

MEDIAtions offers a fresh and original introduction to media text analysis. Focusing on the ways in which texts provide us with mediated forms of cultural experience, Andrew Tolson explores their use of signs and meanings, textual structures, modes of address, genres, and stars and personalities. He introduces the key concepts and methods of text analysis, illustrating them with a rich variety of examples from different media: television and radio, cinema, advertising, photography, popular fiction, women's magazines, and other print media. The book combines a useful survey of existing work in the field with a striking range of new perspectives which both challenge and inform the reader.

MEDIAtions: Text and Discourse in Media Studies

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hodder Education Publishers

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Cultural Studies: Volume 4, Issue 2

Grossberg, Lawrence

Radway, Janice

Arts & Photography

Routledge

The limits of masculinity

Tavistock

Media Talk: Spoken Discourse on TV and Radio

Over the past twenty years, a focus on broadcast talk has emerged as an innovative approach to studying the media. Adapting perspectives derived from Discourse and Conversation Analysis, this approach investigates distinctive forms of mediated speech on TV and radio. It provides original insights into the ways in which broadcasting stages 'discourse events' (interviews, debates, commentaries and verbal performances) which are designed to attract and involve overhearing audiences.Media Talk is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of this important work, in terms which are accessible to students and non-specialist readers. It is however, much more than a textbook, being augmented throughout by the author's own research into contemporary, sometimes controversial developments. An introduction to this area of media studies, and its distinctive methodologies, is followed by chapters on news talk, political talk, sports talk, radio DJ talk, talk shows, celebrity interviews and 'reality TV'. The book is illustrated with examples from British and American radio and television.

Humor & Entertainment

Radio

Edinburgh University Press

Over the past twenty years, a focus on broadcast talk has emerged as an innovative approach to studying the media. Adapting perspectives derived from Discourse and Conversation Analysis, this approach investigates distinctive forms of mediated speech on TV and radio. It provides original insights into the ways in which broadcasting stages 'discourse events' (interviews, debates, commentaries and verbal performances) which are designed to attract and involve overhearing audiences. Media Talk is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of this important work, in terms which are accessible to students and non-specialist readers. It is however, much more than a textbook, being augmented throughout by the author's own research into contemporary, sometimes controversial developments. An introduction to this area of media studies, and its distinctive methodologies, is followed by chapters on news talk, political talk, sports talk, radio DJ talk, talk shows, celebrity interviews and 'reality TV'. The book is illustrated with examples from British and American radio and television.

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