Media, culture, and society : a critical reader / edited by Richard Collins ... [et al.]
Imprint
London ; Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, c1986
Edition
1st ed
Descript
346 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Approaches to cultural theory: Contribution to a political economy of mass-communication -- Cultural studies: two paradigms -- Codes and cultural analysis -- Women and the cultural industries -- Intellecturals and cultural production: In search of the intellectuals: some comments on recent theory -- Intellectuals, the information society and the disappearance of the public sphere -- Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of culture: an introduction -- The production of belief: contribution to an economy of symbolic goods -- The aristocracy of culture -- Cultural entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Boston: the creation of an organizational base for high culture in America -- British broadcasting and the public sphere: Broadcasting and the politics of unemployment 1930-1935 -- The serious and the popular: aspects of the evolution of style in the radio talk 1928-1939 -- A symbolic mirror of ourselves: civic ritual in mass society -- A symbolic mirror of ourselves: civic ritual in mass society -- Terrorism and the state: a case study of the discourses of television -- Broadband black death cuts queues: the information society and the UK -- The impact of advertising on the British mass media