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9780415778121

What Media Classes Really Want to Discuss: A Student Guide

by Smith, Greg
  • ISBN13:

    9780415778121

  • ISBN10:

    0415778123

  • eBook ISBN(s):

    9781136934186

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-08-27
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

You probably already have a clear idea of what a "discussion guide for students" is: a series of not-very-interesting questions at the end of a textbook chapter. Instead of triggering thought-provoking class discussion, all too often these guides are time-consuming and ineffective.This is not that kind of discussion guide.What Media Classes Really Want To Discuss focuses on topics that introductory textbooks generally ignore, although they are prominent in students' minds. Using approachable prose, this book will give students a more precise critical language to discuss 'œcommon sense' phenomena about media.The book acknowledges that students begin introductory film and television courses thinking they already know a great deal about the subject. What Media Classes Really Want To Discuss provides students with a solid starting point for discussing their assumptions critically and encourages the reader to argue with the book, furthering the 'discussion' on media in everyday life and in the classroom.

Author Biography

Greg M. Smith is Professor of Moving Image Studies in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University. Recent publications include Beautiful TV: The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal (2007) and Film Structure and the Emotion System (2003).

Table of Contents

Prefacep. viii
ôIt's just a movieö: why you should analyze film and televisionp. 1
Discussing how media workp. 11
What is realism, really?p. 13
How do we identify with characters?p. 35
Genre shmenrep. 52
Discussing media and societyp. 69
ôStudies showö: how to understand media violence/effects researchp. 71
Role models and stereotypes: an introduction to the ôOtheröp. 88
Discussing media's future nowp. 115
What difference does a medium make?p. 117
What is interactivity?p. 135
Indexp. 154
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