Media Studies
"Deep Time of the Media"Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing By Technical Means
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"Electronic Culture: History, Theory and Practice" series; Custance, Gloria (trans.) Takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development - dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. This title illuminates turning points of media history - fractures in the predictable - that help us see the new in the old. With 86 illustrations. Paperback, 392 pages. Size: 229 x 178 mm. Weight: 619g.
Author: Zielinski, Siegfried
ISBN: 026274032X
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Undergraduate Media Studies
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"Feminist Media Studies"
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"Media Culture & Society Series" series; Explores the ways in which feminist theory and feminist research contribute to a fuller understanding of the multiple roles of the media in the construction of gender in contemporary societies. This text examines key questions posed by a gender approach within communication and cultural studies. With figures, bibliography, index. Paperback, 208 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 295g.
Author: Zoonen, Liesbet Van
ISBN: 0803985541
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1994 (United States)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Media Studies
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"Politics of Modernism"
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"Radical Thinkers" series; The founding father of cultural theory posits a radical new direction for avant-garde art. Paperback, 208 pages. Size: 197 x 127 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Williams, Raymond
ISBN: 1844675807
Publisher: Verso Books
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Modernism
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"A Companion to Museum Studies"
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"Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies" series; Presents a study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. This work examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, historical and representational perspectives. It covers traditional subjects, such as space, display, buildings, objects and collecting. With 73. Hardback, 592 pages. Size: 256 x 181 mm. Weight: 1285g.
Author: (MacDonald, Sharon, ed.)
ISBN: 1405108398
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Museums & Museology
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"The Educational Role of the Museum"
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"Leicester Readers in Museum Studies" series; A compilation of significant articles addressing the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences, focusing specifically on educational groups. With illustrations. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 368 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 652g.
Author: (Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, ed.)
ISBN: 0415198275
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 1999 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Museums & Museology
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"Exhibition Experiments"
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"New Interventions in Art History" series; Considers experiments with museological form that challenge our understanding of - and experience with - museums. This work draws on a range of global and topical examples, including museum experimentation, exhibitionary forms, the fate of conventional notions of 'object' and 'representation', and the impact of these changes. With illustrations. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 230 x 156 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: (MacDonald, Sharon, ed.)
ISBN: 1405130776
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Museums & Museology
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"Grasping the World"The Idea of the Museum
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"Histories of Vision" series; There is much more to museums than the documenting, monumentalizing or theme-parking of identity, history and heritage. This anthology aims to make strange the very existence of museums and to plot a critical, historical and ethical understanding of their origins and history. With 88 illustrations, index. Paperback, 608 pages. Size: 234 x 232 mm. Weight: 1477g.
Author: (Farago, Claire J., ed.)
ISBN: 0754608352
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Museums & Museology
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"A Handbook of Leisure Studies"
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Addresses the history, organization and central debates in the field of leisure studies. This book examines the origins of leisure studies, reviews and evaluates the contributions and approaches to leisure studies of social science disciplines. It also provides a guide to core questions in the organization of leisure that recur in the literature. With illustrations. Paperback, 560 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 910g.
Author: (Rojek, Chris, ed.)
ISBN: 1403902798
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Museums & Museology
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"Museum Frictions"Public Cultures/Global Transformations
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Part of a series on culture, society, and museums, this work is an illustrated examination of the significant and varied effects of the increasingly globalized world on contemporary museum, heritage, and exhibition practices. It highlight the frictions, contradictions, and collaborations emerging in museums and heritage sites around the world. With 70 b&w photographs, 2 maps. Paperback, 600 pages. Size: 230 x 164 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: (Karp, Ivan, ed.)
ISBN: 0822338947
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Museums & Museology
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"Museum Management and Marketing"
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"Leicester Readers in Museum Studies" series; Drawing together articles on theoretical and practice-based developments in the field, this book investigates the linked areas of management and marketing in the museum. The articles deal with the museum context of management and how marketing and management practices must take account of the specifics of the museum and the not-for-profit ethos. With 24 black & white tables. New ed. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: (Janes, Robert R., ed.)
ISBN: 0415396298
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Museums & Museology
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"Museum Origins"Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy
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Paperback, 352 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 558g.
Author: (Genoways, Hugh H., ed.)
ISBN: 1598741977
Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Undergraduate Museums & Museology
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"Museum Revolutions"How Museums Change and Are Changed
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Explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them. This volume includes topics such as: disciplinary practices, ethnic representation, postcolonial politics, economic aspiration, social reform, indigenous models, conceptions of history and urban regeneration. With 2 black & white tables, 20 colour illustrations. Paperback, 416 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 715g.
Author: (Watson, Sheila, ed.)
ISBN: 0415444675
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Museums & Museology
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"Museum Studies in Context"An Anthology
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A comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy. Central themes discussed include: issue oriented contexts in museology; states of nature; the status of nations; history, memory and other locations; and arts and crafts. With 0. Paperback, 680 pages. Size: 246 x 173 mm. Weight: 1202g.
Author: (Carbonell, Prof Bettina (City University of New York Usa), ed.)
ISBN: 0631228306
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Museums & Museology
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"Museums and Source Communities"A Routledge Reader
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The growth of collaboration between museums and source communities - the people from whom collections originate - is an important development in modern museum practice. This volume combines influential published research with commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved. With 18 b&w photographs, 2 line drawings, 2 tables. Paperback, 304 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 612g.
Author: (Peers, Laura, ed.)
ISBN: 0415280524
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Museums & Museology
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"Museums and Their Communities"
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"Leicester Readers in Museum Studies" series; Explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community. This book focuses on the museum as an institution, and its social and cultural setting, and examines how museums use their roles as informers and educators to empower, or to ignore, communities. With maps. New ed. Paperback, 360 pages. Size: 246 x 174 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: (Watson, Sheila, ed.)
ISBN: 0415402603
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Undergraduate Museums & Museology
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