Global Media Discourse: A Critical Introduction

by David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen

Book Overview

Featuring a wide range of exercises, examples, and images, this textbook provides a practical way of analyzing the discourses of the global media industries. Building on a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of global media communication, specific case studies of lifestyle and entertainment media are explored with examples from films, global women's magazines, Vietnamese news reporting and computer war games. Finally, this book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415359457
• ISBN13: 9780415359450
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"