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 Chapter 4: Critical approach to response to a media text

[4.1] Critical Approaches to Response to a Media Text

[4.2] Applying critical perspectives to an ad

[4.3] Rhetorical/Audience Analysis

[4.4] Semiotic/Narrative Analysis

[4.5] Poststructuralist Analysis: Interrogating Language Categories

[4.6] Critical Discourse Analysis

[4.7] Psychoanalytic Theories

[4.8] Feminist Criticism

[4.9] Postmodern Theory

[4.10] Postcolonial Theory

[4.11] Final Task

[4.12] References

Powerpoints

Chapter 4

[4.10] Postcolonial Theory

[4.10.1] Edward Said, On Orientalism

[4.10.2] Edward Said, The Myth of “The Clash of Civilizations”

For further reading on postcolonial theory:

[4.10.3] Postcolonial Studies [Emory University]
[4.10.4] Political Discourse: Theories of Colonialism and Postcolonialism

[4.10.5] Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies

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[4.10.7] Online teaching case: Frances Devin-Glass: Enacting a postcolonial pedagogy online

[4.10.8] Wikibooks: Cultural Studies

[4.10.9] Imperium: journal of postcolonial analysis of the media

[4.10.10] Aljazeera.net: Arab-based news network providing an alternative perspective to Western coverage of the Mideast

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For further reading on postcolonialism:

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1998). Key concepts in post-colonial studies. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Coundouriotis, E. (1999). Claiming history: Colonialism, ethnography, and the novel. New York: Columbia University Press.

Curran, J., & Park, M. (Eds.). (2000). De-Westernizing media studies. New York: Routledge.

Dirks, N. (Ed.). (1992). Colonialism and culture. Ann Arbor, MI.

Dirlik, A. (1997). The postcolonial aura: Third world criticism in the age of global capitalism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Guha, R. (1997). Dominance without hegemony: History and power in colonial India. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

McLaren, P. (Ed.). (2001). Postmodernism, Postcolonialism and Pedagogy. New York: James Nicholas.

Moore-Gilbert, Bart. (1997). Postcolonial theory: Contexts, practices, politics. London: Verso.

Prakash, G. (1995). After colonialism: Imperial histories and postcolonial displacements. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Said, E. W. (1978). Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books.

Spivak, G. C. (1999). A Critique of postcolonial reason: Toward a history of the vanishing present. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

 


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