The Craft of Criticism
Critical Media Studies in Practice
2nd Edition
Published on 18. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-1-032-15650-7 (ISBN)
Description
With contributions from 35 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies.
Fully revised and updated throughout, the chapters in this second edition address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy studies, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches, like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection, which also addresses digital technologies and new research tools in such areas as software studies, gaming, and social media. Each chapter includes an intellectual history of a particular method or approach, a discussion of why and how it was used to study a particular medium or media, relevant examples of influential work in the area, and an in-depth review of a case study drawn from the author's own research.
Together, the chapters in this collection give media scholars and critics a complete toolbox of essential critical media studies methodologies.
Fully revised and updated throughout, the chapters in this second edition address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy studies, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches, like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection, which also addresses digital technologies and new research tools in such areas as software studies, gaming, and social media. Each chapter includes an intellectual history of a particular method or approach, a discussion of why and how it was used to study a particular medium or media, relevant examples of influential work in the area, and an in-depth review of a case study drawn from the author's own research.
Together, the chapters in this collection give media scholars and critics a complete toolbox of essential critical media studies methodologies.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Illustrations
31 s/w Abbildungen, 29 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 2 s/w Zeichnungen
2 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Halftones, black and white; 31 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
742 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-15650-7 (9781032156507)
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Persons
Michael Kackman is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture (2005) and co-editor of Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (2010). His research centers on the history and historiography of American television, with particular attention to the shifting relationships between television and U.S. nationhood.
Mary Celeste Kearney is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media and Gender and Rock and the editor of The Gender and Media Reader as well as two volumes of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture. She edits the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media. Her current book project focuses on the first wave of U.S. teen-girl entertainment.
Mary Celeste Kearney is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media and Gender and Rock and the editor of The Gender and Media Reader as well as two volumes of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture. She edits the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media. Her current book project focuses on the first wave of U.S. teen-girl entertainment.
Content
List of Figures
Preface - Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney
Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Foreword - Michele Hilmes
Introduction, or How to Cook an Artichoke - Mary Celeste Kearney
1 Ideology - Ron Becker
2 Discourse - Rosalind Gill
3 Narrative - Jason Mittell
4 Genre - Amanda Ann Klein
5 Authorship and Auteurism - Cynthia Chris
6 Documentary and Unscripted Media - Daniel Marcus
7 History and Historiography - Michael Kackman
8 Visual Style - Jeremy G. Butler
9 Acting and Performance - Cynthia Baron
10 Representation - Mary Beltran
11 Psychoanalytic Criticism - Todd McGowan
12 Cognitivism - Ted Nannicelli
13 Ethnography - Jessica Lingel and Mary L. Gray
14 Audiences - Matt Hills
15 Political Economy - Patrick Burkart
16 Media Policy - Bill Kirkpatrick
17 Production - Timothy Havens
18 National/Transnational/Global - Shanti Kumar
19 Cultural Geography - Victoria E. Johnson
20 Intertexts and Paratexts - Jonathan Gray
21 Stardom and Celebrity - Suzanne Leonard and Diane Negra
22 Sound - Jacob Smith and Neil Verma
23 Popular Music - Norma Coates
24 Sports Media - Evan Brody and Jennifer McClearen
25 Games and Gaming - Ashlee Bird and Matthew Thomas Payne
26 New Media - Madhavi Mallapragada
27 Social Media - Alexander Cho
28 Software - Eric Freedman
29 Digital Humanities - Miriam Posner (available online: www.routledge.com/ 9781032156507)
Index
Preface - Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney
Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Foreword - Michele Hilmes
Introduction, or How to Cook an Artichoke - Mary Celeste Kearney
1 Ideology - Ron Becker
2 Discourse - Rosalind Gill
3 Narrative - Jason Mittell
4 Genre - Amanda Ann Klein
5 Authorship and Auteurism - Cynthia Chris
6 Documentary and Unscripted Media - Daniel Marcus
7 History and Historiography - Michael Kackman
8 Visual Style - Jeremy G. Butler
9 Acting and Performance - Cynthia Baron
10 Representation - Mary Beltran
11 Psychoanalytic Criticism - Todd McGowan
12 Cognitivism - Ted Nannicelli
13 Ethnography - Jessica Lingel and Mary L. Gray
14 Audiences - Matt Hills
15 Political Economy - Patrick Burkart
16 Media Policy - Bill Kirkpatrick
17 Production - Timothy Havens
18 National/Transnational/Global - Shanti Kumar
19 Cultural Geography - Victoria E. Johnson
20 Intertexts and Paratexts - Jonathan Gray
21 Stardom and Celebrity - Suzanne Leonard and Diane Negra
22 Sound - Jacob Smith and Neil Verma
23 Popular Music - Norma Coates
24 Sports Media - Evan Brody and Jennifer McClearen
25 Games and Gaming - Ashlee Bird and Matthew Thomas Payne
26 New Media - Madhavi Mallapragada
27 Social Media - Alexander Cho
28 Software - Eric Freedman
29 Digital Humanities - Miriam Posner (available online: www.routledge.com/ 9781032156507)
Index