Craft of Criticism

Michael Kackman is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture (2005) and co-editor of Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (2010). His research centers on the history and historiography of American television, with particular attention to the shifting relationships between television and U.S. nationhood.Mary Celeste Kearney is Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Girls Make Media and Gender and Rock and the editor of The Gender and Media Reader as well as two volumes of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture. She edits the book series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media. Her current book project focuses on the first wave of U.S. teen-girl entertainment.

• List of FiguresPreface – Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste KearneyAcknowledgementsContributor BiographiesForeword – Michele HilmesIntroduction, or How to Cook an Artichoke – Mary Celeste Kearney1 Ideology – Ron Becker2 Discourse – Rosalind Gill3 Narrative – Jason Mittell4 Genre - Amanda Ann Klein5 Authorship and Auteurism – Cynthia Chris6 Documentary and Unscripted Media – Daniel Marcus7 History and Historiography - Michael Kackman8 Visual Style – Jeremy G. Butler9 Acting and Performance – Cynthia Baron10 Representation - Mary Beltrán11 Psychoanalytic Criticism - Todd McGowan12 Cognitivism – Ted Nannicelli13 Ethnography - Jessica Lingel and Mary L. Gray14 Audiences - Matt Hills15 Political Economy - Patrick Burkart16 Media Policy - Bill Kirkpatrick17 Production - Timothy Havens18 National/Transnational/Global - Shanti Kumar19 Cultural Geography - Victoria E. Johnson20 Intertexts and Paratexts - Jonathan Gray21 Stardom and Celebrity - Suzanne Leonard and Diane Negra22 Sound – Jacob Smith and Neil Verma23 Popular Music - Norma Coates24 Sports Media – Evan Brody and Jennifer McClearen25 Games and Gaming – Ashlee Bird and Matthew Thomas Payne26 New Media - Madhavi Mallapragada27 Social Media – Alexander Cho28 Software - Eric Freedman29 Digital Humanities – Miriam Posner (available online: www.routledge.com/ 9781032156507)Index