"We, the media" - Pedagogic Intrusions into U.S. Mainstream Film and Television News Broadcasting Rhetorics

This study focuses on thirteen Hollywood films that, from the 1970s to the 1990s, assumed to represent the working practices of U.S. corporate broadcast media. The book argues that since such corporations position themselves as individuals before the law, so their film and news texts are carefully authored rhetorical manoeuvres. The structured genre analysis is also enriched by contextual histories which consider relevant legal, institutional and political interventions in the early development of the U.S. public media. This interdisciplinary approach is relevant in a study of film texts which themselves address vital contemporary concerns in media ownership, gender representation, mergers, free speech, new technologies, and the powers of market journalism itself. This book is designed, therefore, to serve the related interests of media educationalists, specialists in film, and students of U.S. media law and broadcast news histories.

List of contents

Contents: Mainstream Film News Broadcasting - Visual Rhetoric's - News Journalism - Fox News - Media Studies - Hollywood Histories - Radio Broadcasting - Representation - Media Law - U.S. Constitution - Corporate Mergers.

About the author

The Author: Alan Taylor (Hampstead, London) is an hons. graduate of Keele University with postgraduate attainments in Media Education, Pedagogy, Cinema Studies and Filmmaking from London, Oxford, Mainz, and The London Film School respectively.
Since graduating from Oxford, the author has held managerial and lecturing posts in the U.K., Germany and Bulgaria, covering Cinema Studies, Screenwriting and Media Production. Of late, research articles supported the launch of The Alliance for a Media Literate Europe, and, for 2005 he was a City Producer for Cinemasports, an active network linking both amateur and professional digital filmmakers in Sofia, San Francisco, London, Paris, New York, Santa Cruz, Frankfurt, Oxford and Hollywood.
Previous research has focused on Hitchcock, Jacobean Drama, and The Western.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Taylor
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9783631518526
• ISBN: 978-3-631-51852-6
• No. of pages: 420
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 22 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften; Europäische Hochschulschriften 23 / European University Studies 23 / Publications Universitaires Européennes 23; Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européenn; Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 30): Theater-, Film- und Fernsehwissenschaften / Theatre, Film and Television; Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 30): Theater-, Film- und Fernsehwissenschaften / Theatre, Film and Television; Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies/Publications Universitaires Européenne
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Miscellaneous