Culture and Power: A Media, Culture and Society Reader
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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.
Notes on contributorsIntroduction1Pt. 1Culture and Power1Culture and power: the state of research172Popular culture and social control in late capitalism483Post-Marxism: critical postmodernism and cultural studies734Feminism and cultural studies905Media, ethnicity and identity112Pt. 2The Audience and Everyday Life6Texts, readers and contexts of reading1377Reading reception: mediation and transparency in viewers' reception of a TV programme1588Teenage girls reading Jackie1829What's the meaning of this? Viewers' plural sense-making of TV news20110The politics of polysemy: television news, everyday consciousness and political action21811Women as audience: the experience of unwaged women of the performing arts239Pt. 3The Media and Public Life12The alternative public realm: the organization of the 1980s antinuclear press in West Germany and Britain25913The popular press and political democracy27814From production to propaganda?29315Public service broadcasting and modern public life317Index349
\ From the Publisher'This is a much-needed and timely follow-up to an earlier reader by the well-respected communication journal Media Culture & Society. This recent reader consists of 15 publications taken from the period 1985-1991, subdivided into three main sections or parts: culture and power, the audience and everyday life, and the media and public life... This comprehensive reader of integrated critical media research will surely become an invaluable asset for all those scholars and students of media studies struggling to place power relations back at the centre of the debate about the nature and dynamics of the culture-society readership.' - Canadian Journal of Communication\ 'This reader of articles drawn from Media, Culture and Society presents a strong cross-section of studies which examine the importance of power for the study of culture. This book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the analysis of popular culture, the negotiation of the meaning of cultural texts, and the production of cultural forms' - The Canadian Journal of Sociology\ \ \
