"Making Sense of Media" is a lively and accessible text that helps readers understand mass media and the texts they carry. Designed expressly for those interested in gaining a solid understanding of the media and how they work, it is an indispensable book. The book offers a lively, accessible, and concise textbook to help readers understand mass media and their texts; covers seminal figures, concepts and scholarship in mass media studies, including Vladimir Propp, Mikhail Bakhtin, Raymond Williams, Fredric Jameson, and Stuart Hall; explores the ideas found in nineteen significant books that will provide useful insights and concepts for anyone interested in the study of the media; features chapter-by-chapter short articles by the author, that address an idea or theory in the particular book being discussed; and, includes charts, boxes features, exercises, and illustrations to round out analysis and engage the beginning student.

Book Information
ISBN 9781405120166
Author Arthur Asa Berger
Format Hardback
Page Count 206
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 472g