Synopses & Reviews
David Morley, James Curran and Valerie Walkerdine are all at Goldsmith's College, London. A companion volume to the best-selling Mass Media and Society, this collection provides a lively and authoritative introduction to cultural studies, written by some of the most influential scholars and researchers in the field. It offers a critical guided tour of the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and theories of ideology. It goes beyond a narrow definition of cultural studies in terms of the audience to consider the entire communication circuit from production to consumption within a wider theoretical framework. "Anyone interested in fresh perspectives on diverse cultural issues should examine this sixteen-essay analysis."American Society of International Law
Review
"Anyone interested in fresh perspectives on diverse cultural issues should examine this sixteen-essay analysis."--American Society of International Law
Synopsis
A companion volume to the best-selling Mass Media and Society. this collection provides a lively and authoritative introduction to cultural studies, written by some of the most influential scholars and researchers in the field. It offers a critical guided tour of the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and theories of ideology. It goes beyond a narrow definition of cultural studies in terms of the audience to consider the entire communication circuit from production to consumption within a wider theoretical framework.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
General introduction
Section 1: Cultural theory - Introduction
Signification, representation, ideology: Althusser and the post-structuralist debate
British cultural studies and the pitfalls of identity
Postmodernism - the rough guide
The impossible object: Towards a sociology of the sublime
Subject to change without notice: Psychology, post-modernity and the popular
Rethinking mass communications
Section 2: Cultural production - Introduction
New sexualities in girls' and women's magazines
Rethinking popular music after rock and soul
Approaches to the new Hollywood
Feminism, technology and representation
Section 3: Cultural analysis and consumption - Introduction
The new revisionism in mass communication research: A reappraisal
Populism, revisionism and the "new" audience research
Media dialogue
Feminism and media consumption
Popular culture and the eroticisation of little girls
Ethnography, anthropology and cultural studies.