The Craft of Criticism

Critical Media Studies in Practice

Michael Kackman (University of Notre Dame, USA), Mary Celeste Kearney

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Routledge
18 August 2025

Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; TV & society; Media, information & communication industries

With contributions from 35 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies.

Fully revised and updated throughout, the chapters in this second edition address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy studies, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches, like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection, which also addresses digital technologies and new research tools in such areas as software studies, gaming, and social media. Each chapter includes an intellectual history of a particular method or approach, a discussion of why and how it was used to study a particular medium or media, relevant examples of influential work in the area, and an in-depth review of a case study drawn from the author’s own research.

Together, the chapters in this collection give media scholars and critics a complete toolbox of essential critical media studies methodologies.

Edited by: Michael Kackman (University of Notre Dame USA), Mary Celeste Kearney
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9781032156507
ISBN 10: 1032156503
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 18 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Preface – Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney Acknowledgements Contributor Biographies Foreword – Michele Hilmes Introduction, or How to Cook an Artichoke – Mary Celeste Kearney 1 Ideology – Ron Becker 2 Discourse – Rosalind Gill 3 Narrative – Jason Mittell 4 Genre - Amanda Ann Klein 5 Authorship and Auteurism – Cynthia Chris 6 Documentary and Unscripted Media – Daniel Marcus 7 History and Historiography - Michael Kackman 8 Visual Style – Jeremy G. Butler 9 Acting and Performance – Cynthia Baron 10 Representation - Mary Beltrán 11 Psychoanalytic Criticism - Todd McGowan 12 Cognitivism – Ted Nannicelli 13 Ethnography - Jessica Lingel and Mary L. Gray 14 Audiences - Matt Hills 15 Political Economy - Patrick Burkart 16 Media Policy - Bill Kirkpatrick 17 Production - Timothy Havens 18 National/Transnational/Global - Shanti Kumar 19 Cultural Geography - Victoria E. Johnson 20 Intertexts and Paratexts - Jonathan Gray 21 Stardom and Celebrity - Suzanne Leonard and Diane Negra 22 Sound – Jacob Smith and Neil Verma 23 Popular Music - Norma Coates 24 Sports Media – Evan Brody and Jennifer McClearen 25 Games and Gaming – Ashlee Bird and Matthew Thomas Payne 26 New Media - Madhavi Mallapragada 27 Social Media – Alexander Cho 28 Software - Eric Freedman 29 Digital Humanities – Miriam Posner (available online: www.routledge.com/ 9781032156507) Index

Michael Kackman is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture (2005) and co-editor of Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (2010). His research centers on the history and historiography of American television, with particular attention to the shifting relationships between television and U.S. nationhood. Mary Celeste Kearney is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media and Gender and Rock and the editor of The Gender and Media Reader as well as two volumes of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture. She edits the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media. Her current book project focuses on the first wave of U.S. teen-girl entertainment.