San Antonio College Library

Reaching Audiences: A Guide to Media Writing.

In this video, learn about listening skills that influence both the delivery and reception of speeches. Critical listening skills allow audiences to understand and analyze speeches, while audience feedback provides speakers with valuable information about the reception of material.

Liev Schreiber and Jesse Prinz discuss emotions in film and on the stage, highlighting the unique capacity of theater to forge an active connection between actors and audience.

How is it that a patch of flickering light on a wall can produce experiences that engage our imaginations and can feel totally real? From the vertigo of a skydive to the emotional charge of an unexpected victory or defeat, movies give us some of our most vivid experiences and lasting memories. They reshape our emotions and worldviews - but why? In Flicker, Jeff Zacks delves into the history of cinema and the latest research to explain what happens...

"The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature, and aesthetics." "Bourdieu develops a highly original approach to the study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that have preoccupied literary, art, and cultural criticism in the late twentieth century: aesthetic value and judgement, the social contexts of cultural practice, the role of intellectuals and artists, and...

"In Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator, [Heather O. Petrocelli] analyses the relationship queer people have to horror with a qualitative and quantitative study, building on decades of theory that had emphasised horror's queerness as being subtextual, allegorical and figurative. This groundbreaking study of the queer spectator of horror film expands theoretical discourse with empirical data to evidence that queer embodiment has ontological...