Embedded/Embedding Media Practices and Cultural Production

How are political performances and news-making practices entwined in India, and how might the ‘subjectivity’ of the press affect its institutional authority?

[and then we could further the discussion by asking about other examples (celebrities/politics/news media/etc.) closer to home]

Clare Mildenberger

Rao, Ursula
2010 Embedded/Embedding Media Practices and Cultural Production. In
Theorizing Media and Practice, Brigit Brauchler and John Postil eds. Pp.
147-168. New York: and Oxford: Berghahm Books

Film Theory (Gordon Gray, 2010)

How have theories such as Marxism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, structuralism, and others been used by Western Film theorists to respond to an increasingly globalized consciousness?

Can the established “universals” of Western film theory be applied to non-Western films?

What issues might arise from cross cultural applications of such theories?

Can you draw examples of this from your own viewing experiences?

Gray, Gordon

      2010 Film Theory. In Cinema: A Visual Anthropology, Pp.35-73.

             Oxford,New York: Berg.