Craft of Criticism

Michael Kackman is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches courses in the history and criticism of U.S. television, Cold War cultural history, nationhood and political culture, and history and memory practices in everyday life. He is the author of Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and co-editor of Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (Routledge, 2010).Mary Celeste Kearney is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006) and Gender and Rock (Oxford, 2017). She is editor of The Gender and Media Reader (Routledge, 2011) and Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (Peter Lang, 2011), as well as co-editor (with Morgan Blue) of Mediated Girlhoods’ second volume (Peter Lang, 2018). She is academic editor of the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media, and serves on the boards of several academic journals.

"An instant classic from a stellar group of contributors who lucidly explain the key concepts and methods of critical media studies. Both innovative and practical, The Craft of Criticism promises to become a touchstone for the field and an essential resource for the classroom." -Michael Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Foreword – Michele HilmesIntroduction, or How to Cook an Artichoke –Mary Celeste KearneyPART I PRIMARY METHODS1 Ideology – Ron Becker2 Discourse – Rosalind Gill3 Narrative – Jason Mittell4 Non-Fiction Media – Daniel Marcus5 Visual Style – Jeremy Butler6 Sound – Jacob Smith7 Acting and Performance – Cynthia Baron8 Representation - Mary Beltrán9 Authorship and Auteurism – Cynthia Chris10 Political Economy - Patrick Burkart 11 Media Policy - Bill Kirkpatrick12 Psychoanalytic Criticism - Todd McGowan13 Cognitivism - Ted Nannicelli14 Ethnography - Jessa Lingel & Mary Gray PART II Synthetic/Multiperspectival Approaches15 Audiences - Matt Hills16 Genre - Amanda Ann Klein17 Intertexts and Paratexts - Jonathan Gray18 Stardom and Celebrity - Suzanne Leonard & Diane Negra19 Cultural Geography - Victoria E. Johnson20 National/Transnational/Global - Shanti Kumar21 History and Historiography - Michael Kackman22 Production - Timothy HavensPART III Emergent and Challenging Objects23 Popular Music - Norma Coates24 New Media - Madhavi Mallapragada25 Games and Gaming - Matthew Thomas Payne & Nina B. Huntemann26 Software - Eric Freedman27 Digital Humanities - Miriam PosnerContributors’ Biographies