Media Education and the (Re)Production of Culture

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This book analyzes and critiques media education in the university and offers tools for developing a more critical direction. Media education should not be regarded as a job-track, but as an area of inquiry that integrates theory and practice. Media literacy and especially an awareness of the myths and misconceptions that mass media perpetrate should be part of the general education for all college students. Sholle and Denski present the premises of critical pedagogical theory as a framework for re-orienting media studies programs and the discussion of the role of the media in forming important social self-images.

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"(This) is the first book to focus on the application of critical pedagogy to media studies with this degree of completeness. Synthesizing recent advances in cultural studies and postmodern theory, David Sholle and Stan Denski skillfully analyze the difficulties of media education and the potentials offered to it by critical pedagogy. As such, this volume is a must-read for anyone concerned about the increasing of importance of representation to our understandings of literacy, citizenship, and ultimately, democracy itself."-David Trend, executive editor Socialist Review
"Sholle and Denski have written a splendid text. August in scope and erudite in execution, it should rank as one of the most important books in media education in the foreseeable future....(They) possess such a formidable ability to make imporatnt conceptual and political links among pedagogy, historical agency, representation, and democracy that at times they appear to share between them at least four brains. This is a powerful work of important political significance...(that) needs to be read by educators ranging from public school teachers, to university administrators, to television producers and government policy makers. It is an ethical wake-up call for educators and cultural workers to expand the struggle for a radical democracy outside of classrooms and into the politics of everyday life."-Peter McLaren Graduate School of Education University of California, Los Angeles

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DAVID SHOLLE is Assistant Professor of Communication at Miami University in Ohio. STAN DENSKI is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Indiana University. Both have co-authored chapters in Critical Literacy (edited by Lankshear and McLaren, 1993) and Mediated Men: Images of Males in Mass Media (Craig, editor, 1991).