Based on class activities and assignments used by the author over nearly forty years of teaching, Games and Activities for Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Students is a natural accompanimen
Media and Society: A Critical Perspective is a lively, illustrated introduction to the role that the mass media play in our lives, our society, and American culture. Featuring updated examples and exp
Arthur Asa Berger's Deconstructing Travel is an engaging look into why people travel, examining travel and tourism as a cultural phenomenon through social, cultural, psychological, and economic forces
Berger (broadcast and electronic communication arts, San Francisco State U.) introduces students to semiotics using examples from 25 iconic locations, buildings, and places in the US, from the Grand C
A brief, inexpensive, informal introductory text for the basic course in communication, Messages features lively writing, a focus on theorists of communication, and inclusion of contemporary topics of
Berger (emeritus, broadcast and electronic communication arts, San Francisco State U.) introduces the study of tourism, with an emphasis on semiotic analysis, by presenting analyses of the tourism exp
In this guide to cultural criticism, Arthur Asa Berger presents complex concepts in jargon-free language, making the book an ideal introductory text. It covers the key theorists, concepts, and subject
Southwest literary humor and Yiddish humor collided in the ever-popular comic strip "Li'l Abner," From 1936 to 1977, when it ceased publication, this comic strip entertained, annoyed
An introduction to genre analysis, this highly readable volume presents key concepts in an accessible manner for undergraduate courses in film, TV, media criticism and cultural studies. The texts are
This book is a travel memoir about a trip my wife and I made to Ecuador. A university in Guayaquil had translated two of my books into Spanish and I went to give a lecture, offer a workshop, and part
Humor permeates every aspect of society and has done so for thousands of years. People experience it daily through television, newspapers, literature, and contact with others. Rarely do social researc
In The Portable Postmodernist, Arthur Asa Berger introduces key concepts written by postmodernism's leading theorists including Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Jameson. This collage of influential writing i
This comprehensive resource on mass communication theory is structured around the key conceptual areas of text, audience, media, production and society. Using illustrations from popular genres - parti
