Media & cultural theory / edited by James Curran and David Morley.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2006.Description: 308pISBN:

0415317045 (hbk.)
0415317053 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

302.23 CUR

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	302.23 CUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100302133

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Containing new thinking and original surveys, Medianbsp;& 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, Medianbsp;& 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of contributors (p. x)
Acknowledgement (p. xiv)
Editors' introduction (p. 1)
Section I Media, modernity and globalisation (p. 15)
1 The 'poetics' of communication (p. 19)
2 Globalisation and cultural imperialism reconsidered: old questions in new guises (p. 30)
3 The push and pull of global culture (p. 44)
4 Post-feminism and popular culture: Bridget Jones and the new gender regime (p. 59)
Section II Media, community and dialogue (p. 71)
5 A nation and its immigration: the USA after September 11 (p. 75)
6 Thinking experiences: transnational media and migrants' minds (p. 86)
7 Peckham tales: Mass Observation and the modalities of community (p. 100)
8 Media as conversation, conversation as media (p. 115)
Section III Media power, ideology and markets (p. 127)
9 Media and cultural theory in the age of market liberalism (p. 129)
10 Placing promotional culture (p. 149)
11 International agreements and the regulation of world communication (p. 164)
12 Transvaluing media studies: or, beyond the myth of the mediated centre (p. 177)
Section IV Cultural production, consumption and aesthetics (p. 195)
13 Rethinking creative production away from the cultural industries (p. 197)
14 'Inventing the psychological': lifestyle magazines and the fiction of autonomous selfhood (p. 209)
15 Discussing quality: critical vocabularies and popular television drama (p. 221)
Section V New technologies and cultural forms (p. 233)
16 Doing technoscience as ('new') media (p. 235)
17 Synthespians among us: rethinking the actor in media work and media theory (p. 250)
18 Digital film and 'late' capitalism: a cinema for heroes? (p. 263)
19 Internet transformations: 'old' media resilience in the 'new media' revolution (p. 275)
Index (p. 291)