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& "This updated and expanded edition provides a useful interpretive framework and remains an indispensable one-volume resource for understanding the intellectual range of cultural studies and its function in explanations of ordinary practice. & " Hanno Hardt, University of Ljubljana& "Durham and Kellner bring together an intellectually invigorating assortment of material, framed by a lucid and exceedingly useful opening essay which shows how the work collected in this volume can serve the goal of cultural criticism and interpretation. & " Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford University"Selections cover a spectrum of approaches to cultural studies... thematic divisions are preceded by introductions and include articles reflecting a breadth of historical context and movement. Suitable for most university courses in cultural studies." Reference and Research Book News (of the first edition)"This work will prove very useful for academic courses in media and cultural studies. It contains a range of extracts and essays which are - genuinely - key works in these fields. The book will find its easy way on to shelves in academic and college libraries around the world, and those of any serious student or teacher covering this ground. The editors have done a very competent job, and come with no little personal recommendation. A very useful and reasonably priced way of accessing a wide range of texts without which, arguably, media and cultural studies could not properly work." Reference Reviews (of the first edition), "This updated and expanded edition provides a useful interpretive framework and remains an indispensable one-volume resource for understanding the intellectual range of cultural studies and its function in explanations of ordinary practice." Hanno Hardt, University of Ljubljana "Durham and Kellner bring together an intellectually invigorating assortment of material, framed by a lucid and exceedingly useful opening essay which shows how the work collected in this volume can serve the goal of cultural criticism and interpretation." Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford University "Selections cover a spectrum of approaches to cultural studies... thematic divisions are preceded by introductions and include articles reflecting a breadth of historical context and movement. Suitable for most university courses in cultural studies." Reference and Research Book News (of the first edition) "This work will prove very useful for academic courses in media and cultural studies. It contains a range of extracts and essays which are - genuinely - key works in these fields. The book will find its easy way on to shelves in academic and college libraries around the world, and those of any serious student or teacher covering this ground. The editors have done a very competent job, and come with no little personal recommendation. A very useful and reasonably priced way of accessing a wide range of texts without which, arguably, media and cultural studies could not properly work." Reference Reviews (of the first edition), "This updated and expanded edition provides a useful interpretive framework and remains an indispensable one-volume resource for understanding the intellectual range of cultural studies and its function in explanations of ordinary practice." Hanno Hardt, University of Ljubljana "Durham and Kellner bring together an intellectually invigorating assortment of material, framed by a lucid and exceedingly useful opening essay which shows how the work collected in this volume can serve the goal of cultural criticism and interpretation." Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford University "Selections cover a spectrum of approaches to cultural studies... thematic divisions are preceded by introductions and include articles reflecting a breadth of historical context and movement. Suitable for most university courses in cultural studies." Reference and Research Book News (of the first edition) "This work will prove very useful for academic courses in media and cultural studies. It contains a range of extracts and essays which are - genuinely - key works in these fields. The book will find its easy way on to shelves in academic and college libraries around the world, and those of any serious student or teacher covering this ground. The editors have done a very competent job, and come with no little personal recommendation. A very useful and reasonably priced way of accessing a wide range of texts without which, arguably, media and cultural studies could not properly work." Reference Reviews (of the first edition)., & "This updated and expanded edition provides a useful interpretive framework and remains an indispensable one-volume resource for understanding the intellectual range of cultural studies and its function in explanations of ordinary practice." Hanno Hardt, University of Ljubljana& "Durham and Kellner bring together an intellectually invigorating assortment of material, framed by a lucid and exceedingly useful opening essay which shows how the work collected in this volume can serve the goal of cultural criticism and interpretation." Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford University"Selections cover a spectrum of approaches to cultural studies... thematic divisions are preceded by introductions and include articles reflecting a breadth of historical context and movement. Suitable for most university courses in cultural studies." Reference and Research Book News (of the first edition)"This work will prove very useful for academic courses in media and cultural studies. It contains a range of extracts and essays which are - genuinely - key works in these fields. The book will find its easy way on to shelves in academic and college libraries around the world, and those of any serious student or teacher covering this ground. The editors have done a very competent job, and come with no little personal recommendation. A very useful and reasonably priced way of accessing a wide range of texts without which, arguably, media and cultural studies could not properly work." Reference Reviews (of the first edition)
Table of Content
Media and Cultural StudiesKeyworksRevised EditionEdited by Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. KellnerContents:Preface to the Revised Edition viiiAdventures in Media and Culture Studies: Introducing the KeyWorks ixDouglas M. Kellner and Meenakshi Gigi DurhamPart I: Culture, Ideology and Hegemony 1Introduction to Part I 31 The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas 9Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels2 (i) History of the Subaltern Classes; (ii) The Concept of "Ideology";(iii) Cultural Themes: Ideological Material 13Antonio Gramsci3 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 18Walter Benjamin4 The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception 41Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno5 The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article 73J & ürgen Habermas6 Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an 79Investigation)Louis AlthusserPart II: Social Life and Cultural Studies 89Introduction to Part II 917 (i) Operation Margari≠(ii) Myth Today 99Roland Barthes8 The Medium is the Message 107Marshall McLuhan9 The Commodity as Spectacle 117Guy Debord10 Introduction: Instructions on How to Become a General in the 122Disneyland ClubAriel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart11 Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory 130Raymond Williams12 (i) From Culture to Hemony≥ (ii) Subculture: The Unnatural 144BreakDick Hebdige13 Encoding / Decoding 163Stuart Hall14 On the Politics of Empirical Audience Research 174Ien AngPart III: Political Economy 195Introduction to Part III 19715 Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass-Communication 201Nicholas Garnham16 On the Audience Commodity and its Work 230Dallas W. Smythe17 A Propaganda Model 257Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky18 Not Yet the Post-Imperialist Era 295Herbert I. Schiller19 Gendering the Commodity Audience: Critical Media Research, 311Feminism, and Political EconomyEileen R. Meehan20 (i) Introduction; (ii) The Aristocracy of Culture 322Pierre Bourdieu21 On Television 328Pierre BourdieuPart IV: The Politics of Representation 337Introduction to Part IV 33922 Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema 342Laura Mulvey23 Stereotyping 353Richard Dyer24 Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance 366bell hooks25 British Cultural Studies and the Pitfalls of Identity 381Paul Gilroy26 Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses 396Chandra Talpade Mohanty27 Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers 422N & éstor Garc & Ãa CancliniPart V: The Postmodern Turn and New Media 445Introduction to Part V 44728 The Precession of Simulacra 453Jean Baudrillard29 Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism 482Fredric Jameson30 Feminism, Postmodernism and the "Real Me" 520Angela McRobbie31 Postmondern Virtualities 533Mark Poster32 Quentin Tarantino & 's Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, MediaConvergence, and Participatory Culture 549Henry JenkinsPart VI: Globalization and Social Movements 577Introduction to Part VI 57933 Disjuncture and the Difference in the Global Culture Economy 584Arjun Appadurai34 The Global and the Local in International Communications 604Annabelle Sreberny35 The Process: From Nationalisms to Transnationalisms 626J & ésus Mart & Ãn-Barbero36 Globalization as Hybridization 658Jen Nederveen Pieterse37 (Re)Asserting National Television and National Identity Against 681The Gobal, Regional, and Local Levels of World TelevisionJoseph Straubhaar38 Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical / ReconstructiveApproach 703Richard Kahn and Douglas M. KellnerAcknowledgements 726Index 730
