Product Description: The first half of the twentieth century was a golden age of American storytelling. Mailboxes burgeoned with pulp magazines, conveying an endless variety of fiction. Comic strips, with their ongoing dramatic storylines, were a staple of the papers, eagerly followed by millions of readers...read more

Product Description: This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as 'truth' or 'reality' have been increasingly called into question, since the realization that our experience of 'the real' is always mediated through an "empire of signs," as Roland Barthes put it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents thirty-two rants, essays, and parodies taken from Suck, the daily column on the World Wide Web (view table of contents)

Presents a collection of online columns and responses discussing the mass media in the U.S.

Product Description: As a supplementary text for the introductory mass media course or a variety of courses covering the media and technology, Creating Tomorrow's Mass Media offers an overview of the changes taking place in the mass media, as well as a perspective as to what careers in mass communication will be like during the course of a current student's employment...read more