Media and cultural theory /
Saved in:
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. |
|---|---|
| Description: | xi, 308 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5883361 |
Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgement
- Editors' introduction
- Section I. Media, modernity and globalisation
- 1. The 'poetics' of communication
- 2. Globalisation and cultural imperialism reconsidered: old questions in new guises
- 3. The push and pull of global culture
- 4. Post-feminism and popular culture: Bridget Jones and the new gender regime
- Section II. Media, community and dialogue
- 5. A nation and its immigration: the USA after September 11
- 6. Thinking experiences: transnational media and migrants' minds
- 7. Peckham tales: Mass Observation and the modalities of community
- 8. Media as conversation, conversation as media
- Section III. Media power, ideology and markets
- 9. Media and cultural theory in the age of market liberalism
- 10. Placing promotional culture
- 11. International agreements and the regulation of world communication
- 12. Transvaluing media studies: or, beyond the myth of the mediated centre
- Section IV. Cultural production, consumption and aesthetics
- 13. Rethinking creative production away from the cultural industries
- 14. 'Inventing the psychological': lifestyle magazines and the fiction of autonomous selfhood
- 15. Discussing quality: critical vocabularies and popular television drama
- Section V. New technologies and cultural forms
- 16. Doing technoscience as ('new') media
- 17. Synthespians among us: rethinking the actor in media work and media theory
- 18. Digital film and 'late' capitalism: a cinema for heroes?
- 19. Internet transformations: 'old' media resilience in the 'new media' revolution
- Index
