Media semiotics: An Introduction

by JonathanBignell (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2002

  $3.25

  Media semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to specific media forms. New material in this second edition includes sections on men's style magazines, docusoaps and 'reality TV', digital interactive television, and mobile phone text messaging. This study begins by explaining the concept of the sign and the ideological roles of media in contemporary culture. The book then scrutinises advertisements, glossy magazines, daily newspapers, TV programmes, recent films and interactive media, with each chapter containing close analyses of particular examples. Key strands in critical theory which are allied to semiotics, such as ideology and psychoanalytic theory are explored. Media semiotics moves on to discuss the challenges to established semiotic methods posed by audience studies and postmodernism, and considers 'new media', including computer games, the Internet and the World Wide Web.

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  Paperback
  1997

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  This study begins by explaining the concept of the sign and the ideological role of signs and media texts in contemporary culture. Advertisements, glossy magazines, daily newspapers, various TV programmes and recent cinema films are all scrutinised, with each chapter containing a close analysis of particular examples. Key strands in critical theory, which are allied to semiotics, such as ideology, psychoanalytic theory and feminist criticism, are also explored. Media semiotics moves on to discuss the challenges to established semiotic methods posed by post-structuralist theory, audience studies and postmodernism, and considers the new media including the interactive computer game, Internet and the World Wide Web.