Media and Cultural Theory
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Containing new thinking and original surveys, Media & Cultural Theory brings together leading international scholars to address key issues and debates within media and cultural studies.Through the use of contemporary media and film texts such as Bridget Jones’ Diary and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and using case studies of the USA and the UK after September 11th, James Curran and David Morley examine central topics including:media representations of the new woman in contemporary societythe creation of self in lifestyle mediathe nature of globalizationthe rise of digital actors and media.Ideal as a course reader, with each essay covering a different major area or advance in original research, Media & Cultural Theory is global in its reach. Through its engagement with broad questions, it is an invaluable book that can be applied to the studies of media and cultural studies students the English-speaking world over.
Editors' introduction11The 'poetics' of communication192Globalisation and cultural imperialism reconsidered : old questions in new guises303The push and pull of global culture444Post-feminism and popular culture : Bridget Jones and the new gender regime595A nation and its immigration : the USA after September 11756Thinking experiences : transnational media and migrants' minds867Peckham tales : mass observation and the modalities of community1008Media as conversation, conversation as media1159Media and cultural theory in the age of market liberalism12910Placing promotional culture14911International agreements and the regulation of world communication16412Transvaluing media studies : or, beyond the myth of the mediated centre17713Rethinking creative production away from the cultural industries19714'Inventing the psychological' : lifestyle magazines and the fiction of autonomous selfhood20915Discussing quality : critical vocabularies and popular television drama22116Doing technoscience as ('new') media23517Synthespians among us : rethinking the actor in media work and media theory25018Digital film and 'late' capitalism : a cinema for heroes?26319Internet transformations : 'old' media resilience in the 'new media' revolution275
