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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan BignellPublish date:2002-04-04Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9780719062056ISBN-10:719062055UPC:9780719062056Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media StudiesSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCWZ9A983Y

Media semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to specific media forms. New material in this second edition includes sections on men's style magazines, docusoaps and 'reality TV', digital interactive television, and mobile phone text messaging.

This study begins by explaining the concept of the sign and the ideological roles of media in contemporary culture. The book then scrutinises advertisements, glossy magazines, daily newspapers, TV programmes, recent films and interactive media, with each chapter containing close analyses of particular examples. Key strands in critical theory which are allied to semiotics, such as ideology and psychoanalytic theory are explored. Media semiotics moves on to discuss the challenges to established semiotic methods posed by audience studies and postmodernism, and considers 'new media', including computer games, the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9780719062056ISBN-10:719062055UPC:9780719062056Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media StudiesSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCWZ9A983Y
Jonathan Bignell is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London
Publisher: Manchester University Press

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2nd Edition

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