Communicating Unreality : Modern Media and the Reconstruction of Reality.
Reviewing the images and meanings of the mass-mediated world, Gabriel Weimann examines the symbolic environment, where reality and fiction are almost inseparable. Through discussion of mass-mediated images of people, cultures, war, love, sex, death, community, and identity, he demonstrates that ther...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I
- The Reconstruction of Reality
- Chapter 1
- Living in a Mediated World
- Chapter 2
- The Debate Over Media Effects
- Chapter 3
- Cultivation and Mainstreaming
- Chapter 4
- The Psychology of Cultivation
- Part II
- Mediated Realities
- Chapter 5
- The Mean and Scary World
- Chapter 6
- Sex and Sexuality
- Chapter 7
- Death and Suicide
- Chapter 8
- The World According to M T V
- Chapter 9
- Portrayal of Groups
- Chapter 10
- Images o f America
- Chapter 11
- The Unreal War.
- Part III
- Cord usions
- Chapter 12
- Virtual Reality: Virtual or Real?
- Chapter 13
- Communicating Unreality
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- About the Author.