Eric Michaels: Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons (1994)
Filed under book | Tags: · aboriginal art, anthropology, art, australia, ethnography, film, photography, postmodernism, television
“Bad Aboriginal Art is the extraordinary account of Eric Michaels’ period of residence and work with the Warlpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on remote Aboriginal communities.
Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, Michaels records with an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that community’s forays into the technology of broadcasting. Michaels’s analyses in Bad Aboriginal Art will disrupt and redirect current debates surrounding the theory and practice of anthropology, ethnography, film and video making, communications policy, and media studies—no less than his work has already disrupted and redirected the cultural technologies of both the Warlpiri and Australian technocrats.”
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1994
ISBN 0816623414, 9780816623419
203 pages
PDF (updated on 2013-8-26)
Comment (1)Chris Jenks (ed.): Visual Culture (1995)
Filed under book | Tags: · advertising, aesthetics, art, phenomenology, photography, pop art, popular culture, postmodern, technoscience, television
In Visual Culture the ‘visual’ character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision and truth. A major preoccupation of modernity and central to an understadning of the postmodern, ‘vision’ and the ‘visual’ are emergent themes across sociology, cultural studies and critical theory in the visual arts. Visual Culture will prove an indispensable guide to the field.
Publisher Routledge, 1995
ISBN 0415106230, 9780415106238
Length 269 pages
More info (publisher)
More info (google books)
Art Silverblatt: Genre Studies in Mass Media: A Handbook (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · genre, mass media, media literacy, popular culture, reality television, science fiction, television, video games, voyeurism, youth
The study of various types of programming is essential for critical analysis of the media and also offers revealing perspectives on society’s cultural values, preoccupations, behavior, and myths. This handbook provides a systematic, in-depth approach to the study of media genres–including reality programs, game shows, situation comedies, soap operas, film noir, news programs, and more. The author addresses such questions as: Have there been shifts in the formula of particular genres over time? What do these shifts reveal about changes in culture? How and why do new genres–such as reality TV shows–appear? Are there differences in genres from one country to another?
Combining theoretical approaches with concrete examples, the book reinforces one’s understanding of the importance of genre to the creation, evolution, and consumption of media content. Each chapter in this reader-friendly book contains a detailed discussion of one of the theoretical approaches to genre studies, followed by Lines of Inquiry, which summarizes the major points of the discussion and suggests directions for analysis and further study. Each chapter also includes an example that illustrates how the particular theoretical approach can be applied in the analysis of genre. The author’s careful linkage of different genres to the real world makes the book widely useful for those interested in genre study as well as media and culture, television studies, film studies, and media literacy.
Publisher M.E. Sharpe, 2007
ISBN 076561670X, 9780765616708
Length 258 pages
More info (publisher)
More info (google books)