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Announcing the Routledge publication of _What Media Classes Really Want
To Discuss: A Student Guide_ by Greg M. Smith:

Students bring their assumptions about media to an introductory
film/television class. They “know” that media cause violence and
stereotypes; they have a general understanding of what “realism” and
“identification” are. But we rarely confront these commonsense
assumptions directly when we teach introductory classes.

_What Media Classes Really Want To Discuss: A Student Guide_ gives the
introductory student a more precise language for discussing these ideas,
which makes better class discussion possible about these vague but
broadly held notions. The book is written in an approachable, personal,
non-“textbook-y” tone that makes the big ideas of media studies more
accessible to students.

What Media Classes Really Want To Discuss is intended to serve as a
supplemental textbook for a wide range of classes in film studies,
television studies, and media literacy. For an examination copy, visit
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415778121/.

          Table of Contents
1. “It’s Just a Movie:” Why You Should Analyze Film and Television
(the book’s first chapter is a revised version of my widely used essay
that answers student concerns that academics are merely “reading into” a
film/television program. You can read the original version on my
website. The direct link is
http://www.gsu.edu/~jougms/teachingessay.pdf.)

Discussing How Media Work
2. What Is Realism, Really?
3. How Do We Identify with Characters?
4. Genre Schmenre
  
Discussing Media and Society
5. “Studies Show:” How To Understand Media Violence/Effects Research
6. Role Models and Stereotypes: An Introduction to the “Other”
  
Discussing Media’s Future Now
7. What Difference Does a Medium Make?
8. What Is Interactivity?
  
Apologies for cross-posting....

Greg M. Smith


Greg M. Smith
Professor
Moving Image Studies Program
Film/Video/Digital Imaging Program
Department of Communication
Georgia State University
http://www.gsu.edu/~jougms

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