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Media, Culture & Society
A Critical Reader
Edited by:
- Richard Collins - British Film Institute, London
- James Curran - Goldsmiths-University of London, UK
- Nicholas Garnham - University of Westminster
- Paddy Scannell - University of Michigan, USA
- Philip Schlesinger - University of Glasgow, UK
- Colin Sparks - Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
July 1986 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Media, Culture & Society has pioneered a unique approach to media analysis. Since 1979, it has published some of the finest theoretical and historical work in communication and cultural studies from Britain and Europe. The articles in this reader are grouped in three parts, representing a selection of the best work. Each part is preceded by an introductory essay which helps students understand the issues presented, and places the theoretical contributions in context.
Introduction
PART ONE: APPROACHES TO CULTURAL THEORY
Nicholas Garnham
Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass Communication
Stuart Hall
Cultural Studies
Two Paradigms
John Corner
Codes and Cultural Analysis
Michele Mattelart
Women and the Cultural Industries
PART TWO: INTELLECTUALS AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION
Philip Schlesinger
In Search of the Intellectuals
Some Comments on Recent Theory
Philip Elliot
Intellectuals, the 'Information Society' and the Disappearance of the Public Sphere
Nicholas Garnham and Raymond Williams
Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture
An Introduction
Pierre Bourdieu
The Production of Belief
Contribution to an Economy of Symbolic Goods
Pierre Bourdieu
The Aristocracy of Culture
Paul Dimaggio
Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston
The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America
PART THREE: BRITISH BROADCASTING AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Paddy Scannell
Broadcasting and the Politics of Unemployment 1930-1935
David Cardiff
The Serious and the Popular
Aspects of the Evolution of Style in the Radio Talk 1928-1939
David Chaney
A Symbolic Mirror of Ourselves
Civic Ritual in Mass Society
Philip Elliot, Graham Murdock and Philip Schlesinger
`Terrorism' and the State
A Case Study of the Discourses of Television
Richard Collins
Broadband Black Death Cuts Queues. The Information Society and the UK
James Curran
The Impact of Advertising on the British Mass Media
