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New Directions in Media Studies: The Aesthetic Turn

February 11, 2013

By Shawn VanCour

New Directions in Media Studies: The Aesthetic Turn

As more media scholars grapple with issues traditionally associated with aesthetic analysis, the need to map the history, methods, and goals of this “aesthetic turn” proves increasingly pressing.
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Tags: aesthetic turn, cultural studies, cultural turn, Elihu Katz, encoding/decoding, genre, Gordon Allport, Hadley Cantril, historical poetics, Jason Mittell, John Caldwell, John Fiske, John Hartley, Julie D'Acci, Lynn Spigel, media aesthetics, media studies, Narrative Complexity, Office of Radio Research, Paul Lazarsfeld, performance studies, Personal Influence, production studies, Psychology of Radio, radio studies, Raymond Williams, reception studies, Robert Allen, Rockefeller Foundation, Rudolf Arnheim, SCMS, semiotics, sound studies, Stuart Hall, television studies, textual analysis
Posted in Academia, Film, Industry, Perspectives, Radio, TV | 4 Comments »

John Fiske on the Politics of Aesthetics

October 9, 2012

By Josh Shepperd

John Fiske on the Politics of Aesthetics

What political investments are written into discursive analysis? What is the relationship between media literacy and aesthetic analysis?
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Tags: Aesthetics, Birmingham School, david bordwell, Discourse, Foucault, Gramsci, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, Media and Cultural Studies, media education, media literacy, Michele Hilmes, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, semiotics, Stuart Hall, television, television studies, understanding popular culture, understanding television
Posted in Politics, TV | 2 Comments »

Posts Tagged ‘ semiotics ’

New Directions in Media Studies: The Aesthetic Turn

John Fiske on the Politics of Aesthetics

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