Historians Quote by Jane Ridley

The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having…

— Paul Fry

What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How many pancake…

— Clive James

“For all the talk about the merging of film and video game, and for all its inevitability, perhaps the secret of true convergence lies…

— Devin C. Griffiths

A lot of crap goes on in media studies, like in almost everything.

— Stuart Hall

“Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic…

— Henry Jenkins

“So this is me: Friday Valentina. Twenty-year old media studies student at MacArthur University. I’m short and my hair is purple this week. I…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand…

— Camille Paglia

“When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and…

— Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that…

— Liz Truss

“It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers…

— Marshall McLuhan

I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went…

— Nick Kroll

More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don't know about weaponry; they don't know…

— Anne Sebba