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. Drawing together key work from the breadth of current critical media research, Culture and Power is an invaluable student textbook and a complement to the library of the individual researcher.
Introduction
PART ONE: CULTURE AND POWER
Culture and Power - N[ac]estor Garc[ac]ia Canclini
The State of Research
Popular Culture and Social Control in Late Capitalism - David Tetzlaff
Post-Marxism - Kuan-Hsing Chen
Critical Postmodernism and Cultural Studies
Feminism and Cultural Studies - Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury and Jackie Stacey
Media, Ethnicity and Identity - Thomas K Fitzgerald
PART TWO: THE AUDIENCE AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Text, Readers and Contexts of Reading - Shaun Moores
Reading Reception - Kay Richardson and John Corner
Mediation and Transparency in Viewers' Reception of a TV Programme
Teenage Girls Reading Jackie - Elizabeth Frazer
What's the Meaning of This? Viewers' Plural Sense-Making of TV News - Peter Dahlgren
The Politics of Polysemy - Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Television News, Everyday Consciousness and Political Action
Women as Audience - Susan Kippax
The Experience of Unwaged Women of the Performing Arts
PART THREE: THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC LIFE
The Alternative Public Realm - John D H Downing
The Organization of the 1980s Anti-Nuclear Press in West Germany and Britain
The Popular Press and Political Democracy - Colin Sparks
From Production to Propaganda? - Philip Schlesinger
Public Service Broadcasting and Modern Public Life - Paddy Scannell
