Bøker av Art Silverblatt

Covering print, photography, film, radio, television, and new media, this textbook instructs readers on how to take a critical approach to media and interpret the information overload that is disseminated via mass communication.

Presents a range of qualitative approaches that enable students to decipher information conveyed through the channels of mass communication - photography, film, radio, television, and interactive media. This book helps students develop critical thinking skills with regard to what media to use and how to interpret the information that they receive.

Provides an approach to the study of media genres - including reality programs, game shows, situation comedies, soap operas, film noir, and more. This book 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 appear?

International communication affects the way we think about other countries and their people and sets the agenda of issues that face the global community. This book introduces the functions of international communications.

The ^IDictionary of Media Literacy^R is a reference work that contains key concepts, terms, organizations, issues, and individuals of note related to the field of media literacy. Media literacy is an international movement, with many countries developing media literacy programs. This work significantly contributes to the study and understanding of this new and evolving field. In that we all live in a world in which we are inundated by information conveyed through the channels of mass commmunication, this dictionary will be a resource for scholars, students, and individuals seeking to understand information delivered in this context.

This is the instructor's manual to "Media Literacy: Key to Interpreting Media Messages". It includes issues on media communitcation such as violence and the media, as well as chapters on interactive media, advertising and political communication.