Media cultures : Reappraising transnational media / Edited by Michael Skovmand and Kim Christian Schoder

Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Kim Christian Schroder, Michael Skovmand -- I. Media cultures: the historical process: 1. Citizens, consumers, and public culture / Graham Murdock ; 2. Modernity and media panics / Kirsten Drotner -- II. National and transnational media cultures: 3. Electronic communities and domestic rituals: cultural consumption and the production of European cultural identities / David Morley ; 4. Barbarous TV international: syndicated Wheels of Fortune / Michael Skovmand ; 5. French-American connection: A bout de souffle, Breathless, and the melancholy macho / Jostein Gripsrud ; 6. More than just images: the whole picture. News in the multi-channel universe / Peter Larsen ; Postwar Americanisation and the revitalisation of European culture / Soren Schou -- III. Popular audiences and cultural quality: 8. Intertextuality and metafiction: genre and narration in the television fiction of Dennis Potter / lb Bondebjerg ; 9. Semiotics by instinct: 'cult film' as a signifying practice between audience and film / Anne Jerslev ; 10. Cultural quality: search for a phantom? A reception perspective on judgements of cultural value / Kim Christian Schroder -- Index