Analysing Media Texts (with DVD) / Edition 1

The accompanying Analysing Media Texts DVD-ROM is the winner of the 2006 British Universities Film and Video Council 'Learning on Screen Award' for Interactive Media (Course and Curriculum related content). More about the awards and the shortlist can be found at www.bufvc.ac.uk/conferences/learningonscreen/losawards.html Visit the Understanding Media series microsite. This book provides an engaging introduction to analysing media texts. Students learn how to do semiotic, genre and narrative analysis, content and discourse analysis, and engage with debates about the politics of representation. Each chapter provides readings and worked examples, from the classic 1959 film melodrama by Douglas Sirk, , to contemporary television ads. The book has an accompanying DVD-ROM for PC users. Professor Annabelle Sreberny, Centre for Media and Film Studies, SOAS. Professor Richard Paterson, British Film Institute. Alison Griffiths, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, Baruch College, The City University of New York. Gill Branston: Senior Lecturer in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. Author of (Open University Press, 2000); co-author (with Roy Stafford) of (3rd edn, 2003). Marie Gillespie: Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University. Publications include (1995). Jostein Gripsrud: Professor of Media Studies, University of Bergen. Author of (1995) and (2002). David Hesmondhalgh: Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, The Open University; author of The Cultural Industries (2002), co-editor (with Keith Negus), (2002); (with Georgina Born), (2000). Jason Toynbee: Lecturer in Media Studies, The Open University; author of (2000); co-editor, with Andy Bennett and Barry Shank, of (2005).