Communication Studies, Film Theory and The Dawkins Era
In a 2007 interview published in Metro Magazine, McHoul dismisses Communication Studies as a 'rather massive and amorphous thing bred all of these other things and basically became nothing in its own right.' In order to explain his ideas on, and interest in, Film Studies, McHoul highlights the gradual, forced disintegration of Communication Studies due to the growth of its 'ameoba-like entities' such as Mass Communication and Public Relations.
It is here that McHoul points out that with ever-decreasing government funding the rubric of Communications Studies was not marketable to international students for whom many universities relied upon for revenue.
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