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Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking about TV and the
Movies offers a series of contemporary media analyses that use
Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony to explore how dominant
ideologies in media delivery, historical storytelling, and gender
in today's mass media environment become the commonsense viewpoints
that maintain power structures in civil society. Through a media
literacy approach, case studies of ideological delivery through
television and film illustrate why Gramscian media theory serves as
a valuable tool for revealing the many ways hegemonic thought
operates in the media sphere and in everyday life, and they offer
hope for counterhegemonic understandings.
This book offers a series of contemporary media analyses that use
Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony to explore how dominant
ideologies in media delivery, historical storytelling, and gender
in today's mass media environment become the commonsense viewpoints
that maintain power structures in civil society. Through a media
literacy approach, case studies of ideological delivery through
television and film illustrate why Gramscian media theory serves as
a valuable tool for revealing the many ways hegemonic thought
operates in the media sphere and in everyday life, and they offer
hope for counterhegemonic understandings.
The Internet, World Wide Web, and digital devices have
fundamentally changed the way people communicate, affecting
everything from business, to school, to family, to religion, to
democracy. This textbook takes a well-rounded view of the evolution
from media literacy to digital literacy to help students better
understand the digitally filtered world in which they live. The
text explores digital literacy through three lenses: * Historical:
reviews snapshots of time and space to delineate how things were in
order to lend context to how they are; * Cultural: explores how
values and ideals are constructed and conveyed within a given
cultural context - how humans absorb and share the informal rules
and norms that make up a society; * Critical: illuminates how
social changes - particularly rapid ones - can put certain people
at a disadvantage. All three angles are helpful for better
understanding the myriad ways in which our identities and
relationships are being altered by technology, and what it means to
be a citizen in a society that has become individualized and is in
constant flux. Written in a conversational and approachable style,
the text is easy to navigate, with short chapters, short
paragraphs, and bullet points. Comics and images illustrate complex
topics and add visual interest. The text is ideal for media
literacy, digital information literacy, and technology courses that
seek to integrate human impact into the mix. It is also a good
starting point for anyone wanting to know more about the impact of
communication technologies on our lives.
Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences,
tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural
boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings
together a group of scholars to explore the ways that this fear is
utilized and played upon by a wide range of filmmakers.
Contributors take up such major figures as Guillermo del Toro, Lars
Von Trier, and David Cronenberg, and they also offer introductions
to lesser-known talents such as Richard Franklin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
Juan Lopez Moctezuma, and Alexandre Aja. Scholars and fans alike
dipping into this collection will discover plenty of insight into
what chills us.
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