The media book

By Kate Domaille, Jenny Grahame

Subjects: Mass media and literature, Secondary schools, English language, Popular culture, Media studies, Textbooks, Study and teaching (Secondary), English literature

Description: The content of this book covers a variety of mainstream, popular and alternative texts across a range of media. Units include: case studies exploring popular culture (Big Brother, The Simpsons and Teletubbies) media debates (investigations into the phenomenon of celebrity and the targeting of young people by the advertising industry) the close study of four short films which raise issues of representation, ethnicity and disability.