Cultural Studies And Communication

by Morley, David; Curran, James; Walkerdine, Valerie

• ISBN13: 9780340614174
• ISBN10: 034061417X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

James Curran, David Morley, andValerie Walkerdineare all at Goldsmith's College, London. A companion volume to the best-sellingMass Media and Society,this collection provides a lively and authoritative introduction to cultural studies, written by some of the most influential scholars and researchers in the field. It offers a critical guided tour of the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and theories of ideology. It goes beyond a narrow definition of cultural studies in terms of the audience to consider the entire communication circuit from production to consumption within a wider theoretical framework. "Anyone interested in fresh perspectives on diverse cultural issues should examine this sixteen-essay analysis."--American Society of International Law

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

General introduction

Cultural theory

Introduction

Signification, representation, ideology: Althusser and the post-structuralist debate

British cultural studies and the pitfalls of identity

Postmodernism - the rough guide

The impossible object: Towards a sociology of the sublime

Subject to change without notice: Psychology, post-modernity and the popular

Rethinking mass communications

Cultural production

Introduction

New sexualities in girls' and women's magazines

Rethinking popular music after rock and soul

Approaches to the new Hollywood

Feminism, technology and representation

Cultural analysis and consumption

Introduction

The new revisionism in mass communication research: A reappraisal

Populism, revisionism and the "new" audience researchMedia dialogue

Feminism and media consumption

Popular culture and the eroticisation of little girls

Ethnography, anthropology and cultural studies

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