Cultural Studies And Communication

Description

A companion volume to "Mass Media and Society", this textbook is an introduction to cultural studies, written by influential scholars and researchers in the field. It offers a critical guided tour through 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.

James Curran is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author or editor of 21 books about the media. These include Media and Power (2002), Media and Democracy (2011) and Misunderstanding the Internet (with Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman) (2016, 2nd ed.), all translated into multiple foreign languages, and Power Without Responsibility (with Jean Seaton), 8th edition due out in 2017. Also widely translated, this book was described by the Times Higher as having 'cracked the canon', and by the Irish Times as a 'classic of media history and analysis.' VALERIE WALKERDINE is Foundation Professor in Critical Psychology and Director of the Centre for Critical Psychology at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

"Anyone interested in fresh perspectives on diverse cultural issues should examine this sixteen-essay analysis."--American Society of International Law