Cultural Studies and Communication

A companion volume to the best-selling Mass Media and Society. this collection provides a lively and authoritative introduction to cultural studies, written by some of the most influential scholars and researchers in the field. It offers a critical guided tour of the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and theories of ideology. It goes beyond a narrow definition of cultural studies in terms of the audience to consider the entire communication circuit from production to consumption within a wider theoretical framework.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034061417X
• ISBN13: 9780340614174
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

cultural studies...an introduction

This book offers an excellent introduction into the world of cultural studies. Written by some of the most renowned scholars in the field, it discusses the key issues raised in the explorations of contemporary culture: identity and communication, cultural production and consumption, postmodernism. An important book for anyone seeking a multiparadigmatic representation of current social science debates on the "old" notion of CULTURE. Ozren Pupovac, University of Zagreb, Croatia