Product Description: The study of various types of programming is essential for critical analysis of the media and also offers revealing perspectives on society's cultural values, preoccupations, behavior, and myths. This handbook provides a systematic, in-depth approach to the study of media genres - including reality programs, game shows, situation comedies, soap operas, film noir, news programs, and more...read more

Product Description: International communication affects the way we think about other countries and their people and sets the agenda of issues that face the global community. This book introduces the functions of international communications.

Product Description: One of the principle and enduring goals of Media Literacy is to enable students to realize a healthy independence from the pervasive influence of the media. In that regard, the text provides a critical approach that enables students to decipher information conveyed through the various channels of mass communication-print, photography, film, radio, television, and interactive media...read more

This book offers a critical approach for the study of media literacy. In Part One, the author furnishes the theoretical tools (the keys) that will enable students to identify and analyze messages conveyed through the media. In Part Two, they are given the opportunity to apply these keys to a variety of media formats: journalism, advertising, and political communications. The final section discusses important issues in media communications: media and violence, media and children, media and social change, and global communications. Ideal for college courses focusing on the topic of media literacy, this text can also be adopted as the primary text in several other media-related courses, such as media criticism; media research; Introduction to Mass Communications; Media and Society; media seminars; and education courses in communications, language arts, or social studies. A separate Instructor's Manual is available upon request. (view table of contents)

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