Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks, Revised Edition

by Editor: Meenakshi Gigi Durham (University of Iowa); Editor: Douglas Kellner (University of California, Los Angeles)

• ISBN13: 9781405150309
• ISBN10: 1405150300
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition

Adventures in Media and Culture Studies: Introducing the KeyWorks

Culture, Ideology and Hegemony

Introduction to Part I

The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas

(i) History of the Subaltern Classes; (ii) The Concept of "Ideology"; Cultural Themes: Ideological Material

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation

Social Life and Cultural Studies

Introduction to Part II

(i) Operation Margarine; (ii) Myth Today

The Medium is the Message

The Commodity as Spectacle

Introduction: Instructions on How to Become a General in the Disneyland Club

Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory

(i) From Culture to Hegemony; (ii) Subculture: The Unnatural Break

Encoding / Decoding

On the Politics of Empirical Audience Research

Political Economy

Introduction to Part III

Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass-Communication

On the Audience Commodity and its Work

A Propaganda Model

Not Yet the Post-Imperialist Era

Gendering the Commodity Audience: Critical Media Research, Feminism, and Political Economy

(i) Introduction; (ii) The Aristocracy of Culture

On Television

The Politics of Representation

Introduction to Part IV

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

Stereotyping

Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance (bell hooks).

British Cultural Studies and the Pitfalls of Identity

Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers

The Postmodern Turn and New Media

Introduction to Part V

The Precession of Simulacra

Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Feminism, Postmodernism and the "Real Me"

Postmondern Virtualities

Quentin TarantinoaÆs Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture

Globalization and Social Movements

Introduction to Part VI

Disjuncture and the Difference in the Global Culture Economy

The Global and the Local in International Communications

The Process: From Nationalisms to Transnationalisms(JÆsus Mart?-n-Barbero).

Globalization as Hybridization

(Re)Asserting National Television and National Identity Against The Gobal, Regional, and Local Levels of World Television

Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical / Reconstructive Approach

Acknowledgements

Index

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