Reading media : how to do textual analysis /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gray, Jonathan (Jonathan Alan) (Editor), Gershon, Daphne (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2026]
Series:Critical cultural communication
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Welcome to the text / Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon
  • Textual analysis: the foundational method / Susan J. Douglas
  • Producing meaningful analyses of racial representations / Lori Kido Lopez
  • The upside-down comic book : a narratological analysis of M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable / Patrick Keating
  • At the first sign : analyzing television posters with semiotics / Jonathan Gray
  • Fragmented, playful, uncomfortable : the textual analysis of digital games / Diane Carr
  • Historical poetics and TikTok / Meg Herrmann and Ted Nannicelli
  • Reading gender relations in an Afrobeats music video : a multimodal textual analysis / Simphewe Rens
  • How to read a colony on a game-board : Settlers of Catan and postcolonial thinking / Souvik Mukherjee
  • An autotheory for game studies : Shadow of the Colossus / Soraya Murray
  • Is there an argument about this text? Textual analysis as collaborative disputation / Paul Frosh and Lillian Boxman-Shabtai
  • What could rubbish say? On the textual politics of plastic waste / Mehita Iqani
  • "That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination" : analyzing decoration and plot in Walt Disney World Resort's Pandora : The valley of Mo'ara / Colin Burnett
  • Images on the move : close reading migrant and refugee authored media online / Eszter Zimanyi
  • Reading the effects program : the Mission: impossible series and special/visual effects discourse / Julie Turnock
  • "Such amaze, much wow" : (or how to read a meme) / Anirban K. Baishya
  • A textual analysis of #RIPTwitter / Raven Maragh-Lloyd
  • The Dateline formula : true crime, genre, and citizenship / Laurie Ouellette
  • Playing with patterns : an approach to analyzing children's television texts / Kyra Hunting
  • A new situation : textual analysis across TV texts / Daphne Gershon
  • Transmedia Tarantino : reading the many texts of Once upon a time in Hollywood / Henry Jenkins
  • Exploring soundwork : texts, technologies, and cultural form / Michele Hilmes
  • Patterns and categories : connecting textual features and industrial conditions / Amanda D. Lotz
  • Audience-led textual analysis : the case of Bridgerton's Daphne raping the Duke / Joke Hermes
  • Analyzing texts using sounds and images : making video essays as critical practice / Jason Mittell
  • Getting critical : how NPR's TV critic analyzes media for a mass audience / Eric Deggans.