Cultural studies and communications

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Author:

Curran, James.

ISBN:

9780340652688

9780340614174

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Arnold ; New York, NY : Distributed exculsively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Physical Description:

x, 371 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

Signification, representation, ideology : Althusser and the post-structuralist debates / 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, postmodernity and the popular / Rethinking mass communications / More! : New sexualities in girls' and women's magazines / Rethinking popular music after Rock and Soul / Approaches to the New Hollywood / Feminism, technology and representation / The new revisionism in mass communication research : a reappraisal / Populism, revisionism and the 'new' audience research / Media dialogue : a reply / Media dialogue : reading the readings of the readings ... / Feminism and media consumption / Popular culture and the eroticization of little girls / Ethnography, anthropology and cultural studies : links and connections

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This book is a companion volume to the best-selling Mass Media and Society. A lively and authoritative introduction to cultural studies, it is written by some of the most influential scholars and researchers in the field. `Cultural Studies and Communications' offers a critical guided tour ofthe 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 theoreticalframework.