Movies As Mass Communication

Since the publication of the first edition of Movies as Mass Communication in 1980, there have been some encouraging signs that movies are now being incorporated into academic discussions of the mainstream mass media. Most introductory 'media and society' textbooks now include a chapter on the movies. In this Second Edition, Professors Jowett and Linton address both the persistent tendency to position movies as a separate form of 'entertainment' with a specialized audience, and the extensive interrelationsips between movies and the other media. Covering the movies as one segment of the mass communications infrastructure, the authors examine the economic, sociological, psychological and political aspects of film. As a CommText series volume, the second edition of Movies as Mass Communication is an updated, concise, readable text for mass communication and film studies courses.Jowett, Garth is the author of 'Movies As Mass Communication', published 1980 under ISBN 9780835748117 and ISBN 0835748111.