Media and Cultural Theory

James Curran, David Morley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9780415317054
• eBook ISBN: 9781134372294
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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 society
• the creation of self in lifestyle media
• the nature of globalization
• the 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.

Index

ABN AMRO 284

Aboriginal communities 39

academic context:

dismantling of feminism 59–60, 60–1, 61–2;

media and cultural studies in Britain 131, 132

academic disciplines 19–20

Actor Network Theory 238

actors:

creating synthespian entities 251, 255–6, 259;

dialogic relationship with audience 256–8;

working in new Siliwood 253–5

Adorno,Theodor 10, 115, 119, 153, 197, 197–9, 203, 207

advertising:

culture industry 199;

history of language in 118;

HSBC’s ‘glocalisation’ campaign 35–6;

influence on media and culture 127, 154;

Internet 279, 280;

niche media 51;

pressures to exploit Internet media 287;

as promotional culture 149, 150, 151, 152, 154, 156, 157–8;

use of traditional networks 284;

Wonderbra image 63–4

aesthetics:

Becker’s view of conventions 203–4;

and cultural value 7, 195;

melodrama in films 224;

melodramatic modes in EastEnders 226–8;

popular cultural forms 10–11, 196;

production of Russian Ark 269;

and state influence 207

Afghanistan 77

Africa:

presence in Peckham 105, 109–10;

see also West African music

African Americans in USA 79

agency:

and determinism/constructionis...

Table of contents

• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgement
• Editors’ introduction
• Section I Media, modernity and globalisation
• Section II Media, community and dialogue
• Section III Media power, ideology and markets
• Section IV Cultural production, consumption and aesthetics
• Section V New technologies and cultural forms
• Index