TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orlik,Peter B.
TI  - Media criticism in a Digital Age: professional and consumer considerations 
SN  - 9781138913189
AV  - P96.C76 O766 2016
U1  - 302.23 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Mass media criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I Critical Roots; 1 The Essence of Criticism; What Is Criticism?; Why Is Electronic Media Criticism Needed?; Brief History of Electronic Media Criticism; 2 Critical Functions; The Critic as Guide; Other Critic Responsibilities; What Critics Value; A Functional Finale; 3 Criticism and the Communication Process; Process Perspective; Originator Criticism; Message Criticism; Medium Criticism; Receiver Criticism; 4 Knowledge Acquisition and Processing; Empirical and Normative Outlooks; The Four "Ways of Knowing"The Perceptual Triad; A Knowledge Epilogue; Part II Critical Ingredients; 5 Tonal and Talent Ingredients; The Musical Ingredient; The On-Stage Talent Ingredient; A Concluding Talent Monologue; 6 Stage-Molding Ingredients; Audio Transitions and Volume; The Video Stage; Light and Shadow; Horizontal and Vertical Camera Planes; Spatial Mobility; Shot Transition and Duration; Camera/Character Perspective; Pictorial Proportion; A Stage-Molding Synopsis; Part III Critical Gratifications; 7 Business Gratifications; Commerce and Art; Bottom-Line Preeminence; Ratings, Shares, and Tonnage; Quantifying Controversy; Audience Measurement Uncertainty; Scheduling and Flow Analysis; The Final Balance Sheet; 8 Consumer Gratifications; A Consumer Uses Overview; Entertainment/Time Punctuation; Information/Surveillance; Escapism/Nostalgia; Companionship/Conversation Building; Problem-Solving; Personal Enrichment and Development; Catharsis/Tension Release; A Gratifications Caution; Part IV Critical Approaches; 9 Depiction Analysis; Depiction's Scope and Cultivation; What Are the Characteristics of Our Physical Environment?; What Is Society Like?; What Consequences Flow from Our Actions?; What Are Our Responsibilities?; What Are the Standards by Which We Should Evaluate Ourselves?; Practicing Depiction Analysis 10 Structural Analysis; Symbols Defined; Personal, Social, and Archetypal Symbols; Ritual, Mystique, and Myth; Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis; Semiotics; 11 Probing Ethics and Values; Ethics, Values, and Morality Defined; The Media as Values Suppliers; Media Access and Freedom of Expression; Predominant Values Systems; The Media Professional's "Moral Duties"; An Ethics and Values Postscript; 12 Aesthetics and Art ; Interpreting Aesthetics; The Five Schools of Thought for Determining Beauty; Defining Art and Its Tasks; The Three Sources of Art; Our Artistic Prospects; 13 The Logic of Aesthetic Form; Organic Unity; Theme; Thematic Variation; Balance; Evolution; Hierarchy; The Complete Logic Applied; An Aesthetic Addendum; Part V Critical Conclusions; 14 Reality Programming; A Terminology Maze; Reality on Radio; Business Gratifications; Key Reality Genres; A Reality Retrospective; 15 Composite Criticism; Initial Definitions; Intrinsic Appreciation; Extrinsic Appreciation; Intrinsic Evaluation; Composing the Composite Critique; Composite Conclusions; A Final Conviction; Appendix: Specimen Scripts: The Cosby Show: "Theo's Holiday"; The Newsroom: "Dinner at eighth": The Simpsons: "Bart Sells His Soul."
N2  - Media Criticism in a Digital Age introduces readers to a variety of critical approaches to audio and video discourse on radio, television and the Internet. It is intended for those preparing for electronic media careers as well as for anyone seeking to enhance their media literacy. This book takes the unequivocal view that the material heard and seen over digital media is worthy of serious consideration. Media Criticism in a Digital Age applies key aesthetic, sociological, philosophical, psychological, structural and economic principles to arrive at a comprehensive evaluation of programming an
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