Media studies a reader - Marris, Paul; Thornham, Sue (New York New York University Press, 2000)
Part One: studying the media -- Section 1: the media and social power -- Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton / 'Mass communication, popular taste and organized social action' -- Theodor W. Adorno / 'Culture industry reconsidered' -- Marshall Mcluhan / "The medium is the message" -- Raymond Williams / '"Mass communication" and "minority culture"' -- Stuart Hall / 'Encoding/ decoding' -- Annette Kuhn / 'The power of the image' -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger / 'Constituents of a theory of the media' -- Jurgen Habermas / 'The public sphere' -- Jean Baudrillard / 'The masses: the implosion of the social in the media' -- Section 2: production -- Paddy Scannell / 'Public service broadcasting: the history of a concept' -- Nicholas Garnham / 'On the cultural industries' -- Graham Murdock / 'Concentration and ownership in the era of privatization -- Jeremy Tunstall / 'Producers in British television' -- John Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka, Stuart Cunningham / 'New patterns in global television' -- Section 3: Text -- 1. Textual structures -- Bernard Berelson / 'Content analysis in communication research' -- Andrew Crisell / 'Radio signs' -- John Fiske / 'The codes of television' -- Raymond Williams / 'Programming as sequence or flow' -- John Ellis / 'Broadcast TV narration' -- Richard Dyer / 'The role of stereotypes' -- Niki Strange / 'Perform, educate, entertain: ingredients of the cookery programme genre' -- 2.Ideology and discourse -- Stuart Hall / 'Racist ideologies and the media' -- Janet Woollacott / 'Fictions and ideologies: the case of situation comedy' -- Andrew Tolson / 'Televised chat and the synthetic personality' -- Norman Fairclough / 'Critical analysis of media discourse' -- 3. Feminist readings -- Janice Winship / 'Survival skills and daydreams' -- Danae Clark / 'Cagney & Lacey: feminist strategies of detection' -- Corinne Squire / 'Empowering women? The Oprah Winfrey show' -- 4. Postmodern media -- Jim Collins / 'Television and postmodernism' -- Angela McRobbie / 'Postmodernism and popular culture' -- Bill Nichols / 'Reality TV and social perversion' -- Lynne Joyrich / 'Critical and textual hypermasculinity' -- Section 4: reception -- 1. From 'effects' to 'uses' -- Hans Eysenck and D. K. B. Nias / 'Desensitization, violence and the media' -- James D. Halloran / 'On the social effects of television' -- Denis McQuail, Jay G. Blumler and J. R. Brown / 'The television audience: a revised perspective' -- Philip Elliott / 'Uses and gratifications research: a critique' -- 2. The politics of reading -- David Morley / Cultural transformations: the politics of resistance' -- Ien Ang / 'Wanted: audiences on the politics of empirical audience studies' -- Janice Radway / 'Reading the romance' -- Daniel Miller / The young and the restless in Trinidad: a case of the local and the global in mass consumption' -- 3. Beyond Hegemony? -- Ann Gray / 'Behind closed doors: video recorders in the home' -- John Fiske / 'Moments of television: neither the text nor the audience' -- Henry Jenkins / '"Strangers no more, we sing": filking and the social construction of the science fiction fan community' -- Joke Hermes / 'Media, meaning and everyday life' -- Part two: case studies -- Section 5: soap opera -- David Buckingham / 'Eastenders: creating the audience' -- Tania Modleski / 'The search for tomorrow in today's soap opera' -- Charlotte Brunsdon / 'Crossroads: notes on soap opera' -- Dorothy Hobson / 'Everything stops for crossroads: watching with the audience' -- Jon Stratton and Ien Ang / 'Sylvania waters and the spectacular exploding family' -- Section 6: news -- Peter Golding and Philip Elliott / 'News values and news production' -- Stuart Hall, Chas Gritcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts / 'The social production of news' -- John Hartley / 'Home help for populist politics: relational aspects of TV news' -- Lana F. Rakow and Kimberlie Kranich / 'Woman as sign in television news' -- Michael Gurevitch / 'The globalization of electronic journalism' -- Greg Philo / 'News content and audience belief' -- Section 7: advertising -- Raymond Williams / 'Advertising: the magic system' -- James Curran / 'The impact of advertising on the British mass media' -- Sean Nixon / 'Advertising, magazine culture, and the "new man"' -- Janice Winship / 'Handling sex' -- Anne McClintock / 'Soft- soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising' -- Mica Nava and Orson Nava / 'Discriminating or duped? Young people as consumers of advertising / art' -- Section 8: new media -- Brian Winston / 'How are media born' -- Peter Golding / 'Worlwide wedge: division and contradiction in the global information infrastructure' -- Erich Hirsch / 'New technologies and domestic consumption' -- Sadie Plant / 'On the matrix: cyberfeminist simulations'.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Mass media; Mass media -- Great Britain