NCA Hope Institute for Faculty Development

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seminar Title
Facilitator

Institution

 

Media Analysis

Kathleen Turner
Queens College

MEDIA ANALYSIS SEMINAR

Kathleen J.Turner Queens University of Charlotte

Hope Conference at Luther College

NCA Institute for Faculty Development, July 2002

I. News (Day One)

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. "What is News?" The Interplay of Influence, 5th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001:40-82.

Parry-Giles, Shawn J. "Mediating Hillary Rodham Clinton: Television News Practices and Image-Making in the Postmodern Age." Critical Studies in Media Communication 17 (June 2000): 205-26.

Stein, Sarah. "Legitimating TV Journalism in 60 Minutes: The Ramifications of Subordinating the Visual to the Primacy of the Word." Critical Studies in Media Communication 18 (September 2001): 249-69

 

II. Popular Culture (Days Two and Three)

Barker, David. "Television Production Techniques as Communication." In Television: The Critical View. 7th ed, edited by Horace Newcomb. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000: 169-82. Reprinted from Critical Studies in Media Communication (September 1985): 234-46.

Parry Giles, Trevor and Shawn J. Parry-Giles. "The West Wing's Prime-Time Presidentiality: Mimesis and Catharsis in a Postmodern Romance." Quarterly Journal of Speech 88 (May 2002): 209-27.

Mason, Ann and Marian Meyers. "Living With Martha Stewart Media: Chosen Domesticity in the Experience of Fans." Jornal of Communication 51 (December 2001): 801-23.

Timberg, Bernard. "The Unspoken Rules of Television Talk." In Television: The Critical View, 7th ed, edited by Horace Newcomb. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000: 354-66. Reprinted from Bernard Timberg, Television Talk (Austin: The University of Texas press, 1994).

 

III. Advertising (Days Four and Five)

Jhally, Sut. "Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture." In Gender, Race, and Class in Media. Edited by Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995: 77-87. Reprinted from The World & I, 1990.

Stein, Sarah. "The '1984' Macintosh As: Cinematic Icons and Constitutive Rhetoric in the Launch of a New Machine." Quarterly Journal of Speech 88 (May 2002): 169-92.

Watts, Eric King and Mark P. Orbe. "The Spectacular Consumption of 'True" African American Culture: 'Whassup' with the Budweiser Guys?" Critical Studies in Media Communication 19 (March 2002): 1-20.

Kervin, Denise. "Gender Ideology in Television Commercials." In Television Criticism, edited by Leah Vande Berg and Lawrence A. Wenner. New York: Longman, 1991: 235-53.