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Article: Narrative and Genre: Key Concepts in Media Studies. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
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Nick Lacey. Narrative and Genre: Key Concepts in Media Studies. New York: Palgrave, 2000. x + 268 pp. $59.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.
Narrative and Genre is the second installment of Nick Lacey's projected trilogy of practical classroom textbooks that respond to the fact that "all individuals experience media as a set of interrelated and interacting systems." The series is strongly oriented to a very specific rationale, and has a very specific audience and use in mind. It takes its lead from a British Film Institute report's "signpost questions":
WHO is communicating, and why? WHAT TYPE of text is it? HOW is it produced?
HOW do we know what it ...