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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817242803321

Autore

Corner John <1943->

Titolo

Theorising media : power, form and subjectivity / / John Corner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2011

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , [2013]

©2011

ISBN

1-84779-948-5

1-84779-777-6

0-7190-9656-1

1-84779-949-3

1-78170-318-3

1-84779-464-5

Edizione

[First paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

302.33

Soggetti

Mass media

Power (Social sciences)

Subjectivity

Film and Media

Media Studies

PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General

Films, cinema

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2011.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Power -- Form -- Subjectivity -- Mediated politics, promotional culture and the idea of 'propaganda' -- 'Ideology': a note on conceptual salvage -- Public knowledge and popular culture: spaces and tensions -- Documentary expression and the physicality of the referent: writing, painting and photography -- Documenting the political: some issues -- 'Critical social optics' and the transformations of audio-visual culture.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past thirty years or so, John Corner has had a persistent regard for the value of conceptual terms in media research ...



Theorising Media is consistent with this abiding concern and ... in many ways this new book marks its culmination.

Theorising media explores how issues of power, form and subjectivity lie at the core of all serious thinking about the media, including appreciations of their creativity as well as anxieties about the risks they pose. Drawing wildly on an interdisciplinary literature, this book takes its examples from film, television, radio, photography, painting, web practice, music and writing.