Media, culture, and society : a critical reader / edited by Richard Collins ... [et al.]

Contributor(s):

Collins, Richard [ed.]

Publication details: London [etc.] : Sage, cop. 1986Description: 346 pISBN:

0803997493

Summary: The articles published in this reader represent a selection of some of the best work published in Media, Culture and Society from 1979 to 1985. The journal has not only published some of the finest theoretical work in communication and cultural studies, but has also pioneered a unique approach to the analysis of the media which offers a stimulating alternative to both the traditional empirical 'effects' school and Althusserian marxism. The work is grouped into three parts, each of which is preceded by an introductory essay which helps the student to understand the issues presented in the articles and places some of the theoretical contributions within their historical context. Part One, 'Approaches to Cultural Theory', makes two key points. First, the mass media are always specific historical examples of a range of institutional means by which symbolic forms, and the meanings they carry and create, are produced, distributed and consumed. Second, any analysis of the mass media must be based upon general social theories. The development of the social division of labour has endowed a specific social group, intellectuals, with the task of running these specialized institutions of cultural production and distribution. Part Two, 'Intellectuals and Cultural Production', examines the constitution and social role of this group and analyses its relationship both to cultural consumers and to other centres of social power. Part Three, 'British Broadcasting and the Public Sphere', offers concrete examples of the more general theoretical positions of the first two parts. Thus, contemporary policy analysis is firmly and intimately linked to the widest theoretical and historical concerns. This book will be an invaluable guide to the influential critical tradition of media studies and a welcome asset to teachers of communication and sociology of culture courses. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02305	1	Available (Disponible)		1900001289

Reimpressions: 1989

Introduction -- I. Approaches to cultural theory ; Contribution to a political economy of mass communication / Nicholas Garnham ; Cultural studies two paradigms / Stuart Hall ; Codes and cultural analysis / John Corner ; Women and the cultural industries / Michele Mattelart -- II. Intellectuals and cultural production: In search of the intellectuals : some comments on recent theory / Philip Schlesinger ; Intellectuals, the 'information society' and the disappearance of the public sphere / Philip Elliot ; Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture : an Introduction / Nicholas Garnham, 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 -- III. 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 Cardiff ; 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 Elliot, Graham Murdock, 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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