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Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies
Keywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, whether that means noting a long history of "new media," or tracing how understandings of media "power" vary across time periods and knowledge formations. Bringing together an impressive group of established scholars from television studies, film studies, sound studies, games studies, and more, each of the 65 essays in the volume focuses on a critical concept, from "fan" to "industry," and "celebrity" to "surveillance." Keywords for Media Studies is an essential tool that introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies. Visit keywords.nyupress.org for online essays, teaching resources, and more.Brief description: Laurie Ouellette is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Lifestyle TV, Better Living Through Reality TV (with James Hay), and Viewers Like You? How Public Television Failed the People, and editor of The Media Studies Reader, Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (with Susan Murray), and A Companion to Reality Television. She writes the "TV on Demand" column for Film Quarterly and is editor-in-chief of Television & New Media.
Review Quotes: "Written by many of the key scholars in media studies, this book is a wonderful introduction to the history, circulation, and meaning of concepts in the field. A useful, thorough, and compelling primer for anyone interested media criticism today."--Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University