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Media and Cultural Studies
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Bringing together a range of core texts into one volume, this acclaimed anthology offers the definitive resource in culture, media, and communication.
- A fully revised new edition of the bestselling anthology in this dynamic and multidisciplinary field
- New contributions include essays from Althusser through to Henry Jenkins, and a completely new section on Globalization and Social Movements
- Retains important emphasis on the giant thinkers and "makers" of the field: Gramsci on hegemony; Althusser on ideology; Horkheimer and Adorno on the culture industry; Raymond Williams on Marxist cultural theory; Habermas on the public sphere; McLuhan on media; Chomsky on propaganda; hooks and Mulvey on the subjects of visual pleasure and oppositional gazes
- Features a substantial critical introduction, short section introductions and full bibliographic citations
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Table of contents
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Adventures in Media and Cultural Studies: Introducing the KeyWorks
- Part I Culture, Ideology, and Hegemony
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas
- 2 (i) History of the Subaltern Classes; (ii) The Concept of “Ideology”; (iii) Cultural Themes: Ideological Material
- 3 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- 4 The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
- 5 The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article
- 6 Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)
- Part II Social Life and Cultural Studies
- Introduction to Part II
- 7 (i) Operation Margarine; (ii) Myth Today
- 8 The Medium is the Message
- 9 The Commodity as Spectacle
- 10 Introduction: Instructions on How to Become a General in the Disneyland Club
- 11 Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory
- 12 (i) From Culture to Hegemony; (ii) Subculture: The Unnatural Break
- 13 Encoding/Decoding
- 14 On the Politics of Empirical Audience Research
- Part III Political Economy
- Introduction to Part III
- 15 Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass-Communication
- 16 On the Audience Commodity and its Work
- 17 A Propaganda Model
- 18 Not Yet the Post-Imperialist Era
- 19 Gendering the Commodity Audience: Critical Media Research, Feminism, and Political Economy
- 20 (i) Introduction; (ii) The Aristocracy of Culture
- 21 On Television
- Part IV The Politics of Representation
- Introduction to Part IV
- 22 Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
- 23 Stereotyping
- 24 Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance
- 25 British Cultural Studies and the Pitfalls of Identity
- 26 Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
- 27 Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers
- Part V The Postmodern Turn and New Media
- Introduction to Part V
- 28 The Precession of Simulacra
- 29 Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
- 30 Feminism, Postmodernism and the “Real Me”
- 31 Postmodern Virtualities
- 32 Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture
- Part VI Globalization and Social Movements
- Introduction to Part VI
- 33 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
- 34 The Global and the Local in International Communications
- 35 The Processes: From Nationalisms to Transnationalisms
- 36 Globalization as Hybridization
- 37 (Re)Asserting National Television And National Identity Against the Global, Regional, and Local Levels of World Television
- 38 Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/ Reconstructive Approach
- Acknowledgments
- Index