A2 Communication and Culture

This book is confident, authoritative and reassuring: it is a key text for students and teachers alike. It is a must have resource for everyone interested in Communication Studies and is a welcome addition and progression from the AS Communication and Culture textbook. Alan Hackett, Head of Media and Communications, Campion School This latest textbook lives up to its name it is an essential introduction to many of the key ideas and approaches within cultural studies...it is indispensable and beautifully illustrated. If you are a student and you are going on to study Media, Cultural Studies, Sociology or English at university, it's worth buying your own copy you will find yourself coming back to it over and over again. www.communicationandculture.co.uk

Autorentext
Peter Bennett is Chief Examiner for GCE Communication Studies and currently teaches prospective F.E. teachers in the University of Wolverhampton's School of Education. He previously taught Film, English and Communication Studies at Rowley Regis College in The Community. He is the co-author of AS Communication Studies: The Essential Introduction (3rd edition, 2008), Communication Studies the Essential Resource (2003), Film Studies; the Essential Resource (2006),A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction (2005) and Channels (English and Media 11-14). He Jerry Slater is Principal Examiner and Principal Moderator for GCE Communication and Culture and Senior Examiner for GCE Media Studies. He teaches Film, Media and Communication and Culture at Colchester Sixth Form College and is an Associate Lecturer with the Open University.He is the co-author of AS Communication and Culture: The Essential Introduction (3rd edition, 2008)and A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction (2005).

Zusammenfassung
A2 Communication & Culture: The Essential Introduction follows the new 2009 GCE specification and features over 100 colour images, contemporary case studies and examples.

Inhalt

Selected Contents: 1. Moving On, Moving Up: From AS to A2 2. Theoretical Approaches 3. Key Concepts 4. Spaces and Places 5. Fictions 6. Objects of Desire 7. Intersections 8. The A2 Exam 9. Communication and culture in practice: A2 coursework 10. A2 Coursework Samples