Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Theories of Contemporary Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253205824 ISBN 13: 9780253205827

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This intellectually sexy collection features some of the best and brightest academic media analysts from Britain and the United States." ―Voice Literary Supplement

The essays in this volume rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural criticism and theory, the central contemporary debate in the humanities." ―Communication Abstracts

Mellencamp has produced a challenging and an invigorating text.... It should provide much inspiration." ―Journal of Communication

This is a particularly good collection of thirteen papers with, overall, much more theoretically interesting yet less obscure and more pleasure-giving content than the norm. Give it priority." ―Media Information Australia

These essays, on the cutting edge of theoretical debate in the humanities, rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural critique and theory. They range widely from detailed historical research to broad questions of theory and method.

Contributors are Patricia Mellencamp, Meaghan Morris, John Caughie, Charlotte Brunsdon, Lynn Spigel, William Boddy, Eileen R. Meehan, Andrew Ross, Lynne Joyrich, Jane Gaines, Margaret Morse, Mary Ann Doane, and Stephen Heath.

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The essays in Logics of Television are at the cutting edge of theoretical debate in the humanities. The contributors rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural criticism and theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0253205824
• ISBN 13: 9780253205827
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Mellencamp Patricia