Book Series in Communication Studies

Studies in Culture and Communication

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An Introduction to Language and Society

By Martin Montgomery

An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and…

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1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-07238-0 (Routledge)

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Understanding Radio

By Andrew Crisell

'... a highly imaginative and often very entertaining book ... which ... probably says more than any other available text about the limitations and possibilities…

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1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-10315-2 (Routledge)

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Textual Poachers

Television Fans and Participatory Culture

By Henry Jenkins

Written from an insider's perspective and providing vivid examples from fan artifacts, Textual Poachers offers an ethnographic account of the media fan community, its interpretive…

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1992 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90572-5 (Routledge)

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The Ideological Octopus

By Justin Lewis

An introduction to studying the television audience, discussing new developments in semiology and cultural studies and their contribution to our understanding of the power of…

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1991 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90288-5 (Routledge)

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A Primer For Daily Life

By Susan Willis

The interacting components of everyday life - the weekly supermarket shopping trip, fast food, children's toys - are still largely unremarked by cultural theorists. Grounded…

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1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-04180-5 (Routledge)

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Introduction to Communication Studies

By John Fiske

The second edition of this widely used introductory textbook updates the work to take accounts of developments in the last few years. John Fiske's study…

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1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-04672-5 (Routledge)

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Television Drama

Agency, Audience and Myth

By John Tulloch

This book is the first specifically about television drama from within a cultural studies perspective and as such examines the active agency of both viewers…

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1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-01649-0 (Routledge)

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Understanding Television

Edited by Andrew Goodwin, Garry Whannel

Understanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres. It examines a number of programme categories, such…

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1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-01672-8 (Routledge)

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On Video

By Roy Armes

Though video systems are now growing ever more accessible, and practical video work is undertaken at every level of education, this is the first book-length…

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1988 | Paperback: 978-0-415-00718-4 (Routledge)

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Popular Culture

The Metropolitan Experience

By Iain Chambers

1986 | Paperback: 978-0-415-02551-5 (Routledge)

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