[csaa-forum] Books for review in Continuum II: Texts, methodologies and disciplinarities

[Mark Bahnisch]

Hi folks

Further to my last email, all the books I called for reviewers for in *
Continuum* have now found them (which is wonderful!) with the
exception of *Making
social worlds: a communication perspective*, W. Barnett Pearce (Blackwell
2007). So the next edition of the call for reviewers covers teaching texts,
works on methodology, and *Cultural Studies: An Anthology*, Michael Ryan
(ed) (Blackwell, 2008). The latter is a brick of a book - 1352 pages all up.
It seeks to "provide an overview of the history of [Cultural Studies]" and
collects classic and recent articles in themed sections. For instance, Part
IV on Ideologies starts with Marx, moves through Althusser to Fiske and then
segues into a selection of recent articles. Strangely, it lacks an
introduction or any contextual material for any of the sections, so if
anyone's interested in writing a review essay using it as a hook for musing
on the histories and presents of Cultural Studies, it would fill a
significant gap in the text itself! After this email, I'll go quiet for a
while as I catch up on posting the books, but the next instalment will
feature a fascinating and diverse set of books on film.

Other books available are listed below. Those that are texts might lend
themselves to being grouped together and treated with respect to pedagogical
themes and strategies, and could well provide a useful opportunity to write
an essay contributing to the "scholarship of teaching".

*Science Fiction Cinema: Between fantasy and reality*, Christine Cornea
(Edinburgh, 2007)
*Television Studies: The key concepts (2nd ed)*, Bernadette Casey et al
(Routledge, 2008)
*An Introduction to Television Studies (2nd ed)*, Jonathan Bignell
(Routledge, 2004)
*Understanding the Media (2nd ed)*, Eoin Devereux (Sage, 2007)
*Media Studies: Key issues and debates*, Eoin Devereux (Sage, 2007)
*Media and Communication*, Paddy Scannell (Sage, 2007)
*Media Talk: Conversation analysis and the study of broadcasting*, Ian
Hutchby (OUP, 2006)
*Media Discourses: Analysing media texts*, Donald Matheson (OUP, 2005)
*Understanding Popular Science*, Peter Broks (OUP, 2006)
*Key concepts in Cultural Studies*, Maja Mikula (Palgrave, 2008)
*Law and the Media: The future of an uneasy relationship*, Lieve Gies
(Routledge-Cavendish, 2008)
*Practicising videojournalism*, Vivien Morgan (Routledge, 2008)
*Modern Political Communication*, James Stanyer (Polity, 2007)
*Ethics in Journalism (6th ed)*, Ron F. Smith (Blackwell, 2008)
*Persuasive Messages: The process of influence*, William Benoit & Pamela
Benoit (Blackwell, 2008)

Please email me (mbahnisch at gmail.com) if you would like to write a review,
suggest a suitable reviewer, or suggest other titles to review. Reviews are
usually around 1000 words in length, with a maximum of 1500 words. The *
Continuum* editors are particularly interested in encouraging review essays,
so proposals for longer pieces of 2000-3000 words on thematically linked
texts are very welcome indeed. Upcoming deadlines are June 10 and August 17,
but I'd find it useful if reviews could be submitted to me one week in
advance to facilitate refereeing (in the case of essays) and editing.

Many of these titles will make a fantastic addition to your collection, and
they are all well worthy of review, so please assist your colleagues who are
authors if you can, and please assist us in making the books review pages of
*Continuum* a highlight of each edition.

If you'd like more information about any of the books listed, please feel
free to email me.

kind regards

mark

Mark Bahnisch
Creative Industries Faculty, QUT

http://larvatusprodeo.net

(m) 0421 910 542
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