bell hooks: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory New edition

bell hooks’ writings have been touchstones for major debates in the «culture wars», fostering insight into many central questions in communication studies. Her work is vital to students and scholars who explore the ways in which media shape our sense of our selves, our roles, and those with whom we interact. This book provides readers with a measured, contextualized introduction to how hooks’ writings on media and culture enhance our understanding of key concepts in communication. hooks’ insistence on focusing our attention on the workings of power and the impact of history and her willingness to explore connections between individual and group experiences have produced provocative, fruitful conjectures about media and culture.
bell hooks’ writings have been touchstones for major debates in the «culture wars», fostering insight into many central questions in communication studies. This book provides readers with a measured, contextualized introduction to how hooks’ writings on media and culture enhance our understanding of key concepts in communication.
Squires (journalism, Northwestern U.) presents a brief introduction to bell hooks. Hooks is known for flaunting scholarly and academic convention to make several different points about the production and social marking of knowledge. Squires considers elements of her biography, her challenge to Euro-centric feminism, her discovery of radical pedagogy, her musings on media and power. An epilogue focuses on how bell hooks can inculcate better, more egalitarian and yet critical scholarly dispositions. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)