Comparative Media Studies Quals List

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Comparative Media Studies and Communication

[31 Author(s), 21 Books, 13 Articles]

The goal of this area is to highlight the literature on media studies and the process of
conducting media and cultural studies research. Specifically, the list focuses on the studies of
individual mediums (Text, sequential art, cinema, television, digial media, and games) as a
discipline. In Addition, the list also includes methodological texts for conducting media and
cultural studies research in Communication.

Sequential Text and Art


● Bakhtin, M. M.
○ (1984). ​ Rabelais and his world​
. (H. Iswolsky, Trans.) (3rd ed.).
Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
○ (2008). ​
From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse​ . In M. Holquist & V.
Liapunov (Eds.), ​ The dialogic imagination : four essays​ . (V. Liapunov & K.
Brostrom, Trans.) (3rd ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press.
○ (2008). Discourse in the Novel. In M. Holquist & V. Liapunov (Eds.), ​ The
dialogic imagination : four essays​. (V. Liapunov & K. Brostrom, Trans.)
(3rd ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press.

Comics and sequential art​


● Eisner, W. (1994). ​ . Tamarac: Poorhouse Press.

Cinema
What is cinema?​
● Bazin, A. (2005). ​ (Gray, Hugh, Trans.) (6th ed.). Berkeley:
University of California Press.
● Deleuze selections from ​ Cinema 1 ​and ​
Cinema 2
○ (1997). The Origin of the Crisis: Italian Neo­realism and the French New
Wave. In L. Braudy & M. Cohen (Eds.), ​ Film Theory and Criticism:
Introductory Readings ​ (470­481). New York: Oxford University Press.
○ (1997) Beyond the Movement­Image. In L. Braudy & M. Cohen (Eds.),
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings ​ (470­481). New York:
Oxford University Press.
● Gunning, T. (1997). “Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System.” In L. Braudy
& M. Cohen (Eds.), ​Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings ​(470­481).
New York: Oxford University Press.
● Bordwell, D. (1996). “vicissitudes of theory”
Ciné­ethnography​
● Rouch, J., & Feld, S. (2003). ​ . Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press.

Television

● Hall, Stuart. (1973).​
Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse.
Birmingham: Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
● Morley, D. (1995). Television, audiences and cultural studies. London [u.a.]:
Routledge.
● Bourdieu, P. (1998). On television. New York: New Press.
● Ouellette, L., & Hay, J. (2007). Better living through television. Oxford: Blackwell.
● Williams, R., & Williams, E. (2008). Television : technology and cultural form.
London; New York: Routledge.

Games
● Huizinga, J (2006). Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon
(1955). In K. Salen & E. Zimmerman (Eds.).T​ he Game Design Reader: A Rules
of Play Anthology. ​ 96­121. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
● Morningstar, C. and Farmer, F.R. (1991). The Lessons of Lucasfilm’s Habitat. In
M. Benedikt (Ed.),​ Cyberspace: First Steps​
​ . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Retrieved from ​ h​
ttp://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html
● Half­real : video games between real rules and fictional worlds​
Juul, J. (2005). ​ .
Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
● Murray, J. (2006). Toward a Cultural Theory of Gaming: Digital Games and the
Co­Evolution of Media, Mind, and Culture. ​ Popular Communication 4​ (3),
185–202.
● Bogost, I. (2007). ​Persuasive games : the expressive power of videogames​ .
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
● Consalvo, M. (2007). Cheating: gaining advantage in videogames. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press.

“New” Media and the Digital


Life on the screen : identity in the age of the Internet​
● Turkle, S. (1995). ​ . New
York: Simon & Schuster.
● Bolter, J. D. & Grusin, R. (1999) Remediation: Understanding New Media.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
● Manovich, L. (2001). ​The language of new media.​ Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
● D. Fox Harrell. (2010) Toward a Theory of Critical Computing: The Case of
Social Identity Representation in Digital Media Applications. ​CTheory​ ​
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● Urrichio, W. (2003. Historicizing Media in Transition. In D. Thorburn & H. Jenkins
Rethinking media change : the aesthetics of transition ​
(Eds.), ​ (23­38).
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT.

Methods for Doing Media and Cultural Studies


● White, H. 1985. Tropics of discourse: Essays in cultural criticism. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press.
● lasuutari, Pertti. 1995. ​
Researching culture: Qualitative method and cultural
studies​. London: Sage.
● Seiter, E. 1999. ​ Television and new media audiences​ . New York: Oxford
University Press.
● Barker, C. and Galasinski, D. 2001. Cultural studies and discourse analysis: A
dialogue on language and identity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
● Gray, A. (2003). ​ Research practice for cultural studies​. London: Sage.
● Chambers, D., Johnson, R., Raghuram, P., & Tincknell, E. (2004). ​ The practice
of cultural studies​. London : SAGE..
● Hesse­Biber, S. N., & Leavy, P. (2005). ​ The practice of qualitative research​ .
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications.
● Saukko, P.​ (2005). ​ Methodologies for cultural studies. In Norman K. Denzin &
Yvonna S. Lincoln (Eds.)​The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research.
Thousand Oaks: Sage. (pp. 343­356)
● Cohen, D. J., & Rosenzweig, R. (2006). ​ Digital history : a guide to gathering,
preserving, and presenting the past on the Web​ . Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press.
● Theorizing the moving image​
Carroll, N. (1996). ​ . Cambridge U.K.; New York:
Cambridge University Press.
● Poser, M. (2006). Culture and New Media: A Historical view. in L.A. Lievrouw &
The Handbook of New Media: Student Edition​
S. Livingstone (Eds.). ​ .
● Markham, A. N., & Baym, N. K. (2009). ​ Internet inquiry : conversations about
method​ . Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
● McLuhan, M. (1995). ​ Understanding media : the extensions of man​ . MIT­Press:
Cambridge, Mass.

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