| Media, Culture & Society: A Critical Reader Contributor(s): Collins, Richard E. (Editor), Curran, James (Editor), Garnham, Nicholas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0803997493 ISBN-13: 9780803997493 Publisher: Sage Publications UK OUR PRICE: $79.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: Since its inception in 1979, Media, Culture & Society has published some of the finest theoretical and historical work in communication and cultural studies to emerge from Britain and continental Europe. Such distinguished scholars as Raymond Williams, Pierre Bourdieu, Stuart Hall, and Philip Elliot have contributed articles that have had a profound impact on the fields of political science, sociology, and media studies. The journal has pioneered a unique and refreshing approach to the analysis of the media, offering a stimulating alternative to both the traditional empirical "effects" school and Althuserrian Marxism. Grouped in three parts, the articles in this critical reader represent a cross section of the best work published in Media, Culture & Society. Preceding each article is a useful introductory essay that will enable students to better comprehend the issues discussed. This book will prove to be an invaluable guide to the influential tradition of media studies and a welcome asset both to teachers and students of communication and sociology-of-culture courses. "This valuable book is an anthology of sixteen articles published in the journal Media, Culture, & Society between 1975-1985. There is a great deal more importance in this book than space to discuss it." --The Book Review |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 302 |
| LCCN: 86060923 |
| Series: Media Culture & Society |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.1 lbs) 368 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Media, Culture & Society has pioneered a unique approach to media analysis. Since 1979, it has published some of the finest theoretical and historical work in communication and cultural studies from Britain and Europe. The articles in this reader are grouped in three parts, representing a selection of the best work. Each part is preceded by an introductory essay which helps students understand the issues presented, and places the theoretical contributions in context. |
Contributor Bio(s): Scannell, Paddy: - Paddy Scannell worked for many years at the University of Westminster (London) where he and his colleagues established, in 1975, the first undergraduate degree program in Media Studies in the UK. He is a founding editor of Media, Culture and Society which began publication in 1979 and is now issued six times yearly. He is the author of A Social History of British Broadcasting, 1922-1939 which he wrote with David Cardiff, editor of Broadcast Talk and author of Radio, Television and Modern Life. He is currently working on a trilogy. The first volume, Media and Communication, was published in June 2007. Professor Scannell is now working on the second volume, Television and the Meaning of 'Live.' The third volume, Love and Communication, is in preparation. His research interests include broadcasting history and historiography, the analysis of talk, the phenomenology of communication and culture and communication in Africa.Schlesinger, Philip: - Philip Schlesinger was appointed to the University of Glasgow's new Chair in Cultural Policy and became Academic Director of CCPR in January 2007. He was previously Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Stirling and founding Director of Stirling Media Research Institute. He has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Greenwich, a Nuffield Social Science Research Fellow, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute of Florence, and has held the Queen Victoria Eugenia Chair of Doctoral Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was a longstanding Visiting Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lugano, and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Toulouse, CELSA in Paris, LUISS University in Rome, the University of Salamanca, and a Visiting Scholar at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. He is the author of Putting 'Reality' Together (2nd ed. 1987) and Media, State and Nation (1991) and is co-author of Televising 'Terrorism' (1983), Women Viewing Violence (1992), Reporting Crime (1994) Open Scotland? (2001) and Mediated Access (2003).Sparks, Colin: - Colin Sparks is a professor at the Centre for Communication and Information Studies at the Univeristy of Westminster and Co-Editor of Media, Culture and Society. Anna Reading is a lecturer at Southbank University and Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society.Sparks, Colin: - Colin Sparks is a professor at the Centre for Communication and Information Studies at the Univeristy of Westminster and Co-Editor of Media, Culture and Society. Anna Reading is a lecturer at Southbank University and Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society. |