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Culture and Power
A Media, Culture & Society Reader
Edited by:
- Paddy Scannell - University of Michigan, USA
- Philip Schlesinger - University of Glasgow, UK
- Colin Sparks - Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
April 1992 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This broad-ranging book presents an introduction to the issues and debates which are currently central to media studies, drawn from major articles published in the journal Media, Culture & Society in the period 1985 - 1991.
The first part outlines and surveys some key theoretical developments in media studies such as the increased use of feminist and cultural studies approaches to the media and the development of the postmodernism debate. The second part addresses the key area of recent research around the audience; the last section addresses the public sphere. Drawing together key work from the breadth of current critical media research, Culture and Power is an invaluable student textbook and a complement to the library of the individual researcher.
Introduction
PART ONE: CULTURE AND POWER
N[ac]estor Garc[ac]ia Canclini
Culture and Power
David Tetzlaff
Popular Culture and Social Control in Late Capitalism
Kuan-Hsing Chen
Post-Marxism
Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury and Jackie Stacey
Feminism and Cultural Studies
Thomas K Fitzgerald
Media, Ethnicity and Identity
PART TWO: THE AUDIENCE AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Shaun Moores
Text, Readers and Contexts of Reading
Kay Richardson and John Corner
Reading Reception
Elizabeth Frazer
Teenage Girls Reading Jackie
Peter Dahlgren
What's the Meaning of This? Viewers' Plural Sense-Making of TV News
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
The Politics of Polysemy
Susan Kippax
Women as Audience
PART THREE: THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC LIFE
John D H Downing
The Alternative Public Realm
Colin Sparks
The Popular Press and Political Democracy
Philip Schlesinger
From Production to Propaganda?
Paddy Scannell
Public Service Broadcasting and Modern Public Life
This is an excellent edited text compiled by luminaries in the field of media and cultural studies - challenging but equally accessible especially for post graduate students.
Media and Performance, University College Falmouth
November 13, 2012
