Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Media, Culture & Society has pioneered a unique approach to media analysis. Since 1979, it has published some of the finest theoretical and historical work in communication and cultural studies from Britain and Europe. The articles in this reader are grouped in three parts, representing a selection of the best work. Each part is preceded by an introductory essay which helps students understand the issues presented, and places the theoretical contributions in context.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• Part 1 Approaches To Cultural Theory
• Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass Communication
• Cultural Studies
• Two Paradigms
• Codes and Cultural Analysis
• Women and the Cultural Industries
• Part 2 Intellectuals And Cultural Production
• In Search of the Intellectuals
• Some Comments on Recent Theory
• Intellectuals, the 'Information Society' and the Disappearance of the Public Sphere
• Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture
• An Introduction
• The Production of Belief
• Contribution to an Economy of Symbolic Goods
• The Aristocracy of Culture
• Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston
• The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America
• Part 3 British Broadcasting And The Public Sphere
• Broadcasting and the Politics of Unemployment 1930-1935
• The Serious and the Popular
• Aspects of the Evolution of Style in the Radio Talk 1928-1939
• A Symbolic Mirror of Ourselves
• Civic Ritual in Mass Society
• 'Terrorism' and the State
• A Case Study of the Discourses of Television
• Broadband Black Death Cuts Queues. The Information Society and the UK
• The Impact of Advertising on the British Mass Media