A2 Communication and Culture

Peter Bennett is Chief Examiner for GCE Communication Studies and currently teaches prospective F.E. teachers in the University of Wolverhampton’s School of Education.  He previously taught Film, English and Communication Studies at Rowley Regis College in The Community. He is the co-author of AS Communication Studies: The Essential Introduction (3rd edition, 2008), Communication Studies the Essential Resource (2003), Film Studies; the Essential Resource (2006), A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction (2005) and Channels (English and Media 11-14).   HeJerry Slater is Principal Examiner and Principal Moderator for GCE Communication and Culture and Senior Examiner for GCE Media Studies. He teaches Film, Media and Communication and Culture at Colchester Sixth Form College and is an Associate Lecturer with the Open University.He is the co-author of AS Communication and Culture: The Essential Introduction (3rd edition, 2008) and A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction (2005).

"The impressive range of this book fluently maps the study of contemporary culture from DeBotton’s discussion of travel as metaphor to the postmodern semiotics of Ironbridge museum via discussion of Johnson’s ‘on it’s head’ theories of gaming and cognitive enhancement. Bennett and Slater make visible the deficient nature of media studies as a selfregarding discipline when set against this more ‘connected’ subject." - PoV The Journal of the Media Education Association Vol 2 No 1

• Selected Contents: 1. Moving On, Moving Up: From AS to A2 2. Theoretical Approaches 3. Key Concepts 4. Spaces and Places 5. Fictions 6. Objects of Desire 7. Intersections 8. The A2 Exam 9. Communication and culture in practice: A2 coursework 10. A2 Coursework Samples