Media and Cultural Studies

Key Works

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Edited by Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas Kellner

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published February 2001, 656 pages, paper

ISBN 0631220968

Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks is a comprehensive anthology of the most significant theoretical readings pertaining to critical approaches to media culture and communications. The volume brings together what are considered the key works of current theory and method for the study of the abundance and diversity of culture and society in the present age.

Ranging from the writings of Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School to recent essays on identity, race, gender, and the postmodern turn, this book offers a range of core texts. The editor's introduction provides an in-depth analytical overview of critical media studies, and each section is fully annotated.

Contents:

Part I: Culture, Ideology and Hegemony:
1. The Ruling Class and The Ruling Ideas: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
2. History of The Subaltern Classes, and The Concept of "Ideology": Antonio Gramsci.
3. Cultural Themes: Ideological Material:Antonio Gramsci.
4. The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction:Walter Benjamin.
5. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment As Mass Deception:Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno.
6. The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article:Jurgen Habermas.
Part II: Social Life and Cultural Studies:
7. "Operation Margarine" and "Myth Today":Roland Barthes.
8. The Medium Is The Message: Marshall Mcluhan.
9. The Consumption As Spectacle: Guy Debord.
10. Introduction: Instructions on How To Become A General In The Disneyland Club: Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart.
11. Base and Superstructure In Marxist Cultural Theory: Raymond Williams.
12. Encoding/Decoding: Stuart Hall.
13. On The Politics of Empirical Audience Research: Ien Ang.
14. "From Culture To Hegemony" and "Subculture: The Unnatural Break": Dick Hebdige.
Part III: Political Economy:
15. Contribution To A Political Economy of Mass Communication: Nicholas Garnham.
16. On The Audience Commodity and Its Work: Dallas Smythe.
17. The Propaganda Model: Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky.
18. Not Yet The Post-Imperialist Era: Herbert Schiller.
19. Unwrapping Use Value: Susan Willis.
20. The Processes: From Nationalisms To Transnationalisms:Jesus Martin-Barbero.
Part IV: The Politics of Representation:
21. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema: Laura Mulvey.
22. Out of The Mainstream: Sexual Minorities and The Mass Media: Larry Gross.
23. Eating The Other: Desire and Resistance: Bell Hooks.
24. The Politics of Representation In Network Television: Herman Gray.
25. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse: Chandra Mohanty.
26. Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers:Nˇstor Garc’a-Canclini.
Part V: The Postmodern Turn and New Media:
27. The Precession of Simulacra:Jean Baudrillard.
28. Postmodernism, Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Fredric Jameson.
29. "Prologue," In Megalopolis: Celeste Olalquiaga.
30. Feminism, Postmodernism, and The 'Real Me': Angela Mcrobbie.
31. Postmodern Virtualities: Mark Poster