Media Reception Studies

by Janet Staiger

Book Overview

A broad survey on how audiences make meaning out of mass media

Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media.

Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago School, early psychological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814781357
• ISBN13: 9780814781357
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"