Renee Somers | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Part of the Longman Topics Series, this brief reader invites students to explore the impact of contemporary films and television shows on their lives by encouraging them to examine a wide range of intellectual, social, ethical, and cultural concerns about these distinctive visual media.

This collection of readings provides many opportunities for students to write about their relationship with film and television culture, especially as this culture both informs and challenges their understanding of values and behavior in contemporary society. Authors included in this collection write on a number of complex topics, including the impact that television and film have on their own sense of identity; the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexuality are represented in movies and television; the multi-faceted composition of contemporary film and TV audiences; the increasingly blurred lines between entertainment and “reality” in films and television shows; and the complicated responses to visual images of “horror” in both movies and TV, especially since 9/11.   

“Longman Topics” are brief, attractive readers on a single complex, but compelling topic. These volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.