Media, culture, and society : a critical reader /
edited by Richard Collins ... [et al.]
- London : SAGE, c1986.
- 346 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
"Articles published in this reader represent a selection ... published in Media, culture, and society between 1979 ... and 1985"--P. 1.
Introduction. - Pt. One : Approaches to cultural theory. Contribution to a political economy of mass-communication / Nicholas Garnham. Cultural studies : two paradigms / Stuart Corner. Codes and cultural analysis / John Corner. Women and the cultural industries / Michele Mattelart. - Pt. Two : Intellectuals and cultural production. In search of the intellectuals : some comments on recent theory / Philip Schlesinger. Intellectuals, the 'information society' and the disapperance of the public sphere / Philip Elliot. Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of culture : an introduction / Nicholas Garnham and Raymond Williams. The production of belief : contribution to an economy of symbolic goods / Pierre Bourdieu. The aristocracy of culture / Pierre Bourdieu. Cultural entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Boston : the creation of an organizational base for high culture in America / Paul Dimaggio. - Pt. Three : British broadcasting and the public sphere. Broadcasting and the politics of unemployment 1930-1935 / Paddy Scannell. The serious and the popular : aspects of the evolution of style in the radio talk 1928-1939 / David Cardiv. A symbolic mirror of ourselves : civic ritual in mass society / David Chaney. 'Terrorism' and the state : a case study of the discourses of television / Philip Elliott, Graham Murdock and Philip Schlesinger. Broadband black death cuts queues. The information society and the UK / Richard Collins. The impact of advertising on the British mass media / James Curran. - Index. - Notes on contributors.
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