Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adventures in media and cultural studies: introducing the keyworks / Douglas M. Kellner and Meenakshi Gigi Durham -- Pt. 1. Culture, ideology and hegemony -- 1. The ruling class and the ruling ideas / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- 2. History of the subaltern classes; (ii) The concept of "ideology"; (iii) Cultural themes: ideological material / Antonio Gramsci -- 3. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin -- 4. The cultural industry: enlightenment as mass deception / Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno -- 5. The public sphere: an encyclopedia article / Jürgen Habermas -- 6. Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (Notes towards an investigation) / Louis Althusser -- 7. (i) Operation margarine; (ii) Myth today / Roland Barthes -- 8. The medium is the message / Marshall McLuhan -- 9. The commodity 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 superstructures in Marxist cultural theory / Raymond Williams -- 12. (i) From culture to hegemony; (ii) Subculture: the unnatural break / Dick Hebdige -- 13. Encoding/Decoding / Stuart Hall -- 14. On the politics of empirical audience research / Ien Ang -- Pt. 3. Political economy -- 15. Contributions to a political economy of mass-communication / Nicholas Garnham. 16. On the audience commodity and its work / Dallas W. Smythe -- 17. A propaganda model / Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky -- 18. Not yet the post-imperialist era / Herbert I. Schiller -- 19. Gendering the commodity audience: critical media research, feminism, and political economy / Eileen R. Meehan -- 20. (i) Introduction; (ii) The aristocracy of culture / Pierre Bourdieu -- 21. On television / Pierre Bourdieu -- Pt. 4. The Politics of representation -- 22. Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- 23. Stereotyping / Richard Dyer -- 24. Eating the other: desire and resistance / bell hooks -- 25. British cultural studies and the pitfalls of identity / Paul Gilroy -- 26. Under western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- 27. Hybrid cultures, oblique powers / Néstor García Canclini -- Pt. 5. The postmodern turn and new media -- 28. The precession of simulacra / Jean Baudrillard -- 29. Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism / Fredric Jameson -- 30. Feminism, postmodernism and the "real me" / Angela McRobbie -- 31. Postmodern virtualities / Mark Poster -- 32. Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?: digital cinema, media convergence , and participatory culture / Henry Jenkins -- Pt. 6. Globalization and social movements -- 33. Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy / Arjun Appadurai -- 34. The global and the local in international communications / Annabelle Sreberny -- 35. The processes: from nationalisms to transnationalisms / Jesús Martín-Barbero. 36. Globalization as hybridization / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- 37. (Re)asserting national television and national identity against the global, regional, and local levels of world television / Joseph Straubhaar -- 38. Oppositional politics and the Internet: a critical/reconstructive approach / Richard Kahn and Douglas M. Kellner --

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New contributions include essays from Althusser through to Henry Jenkins, and a completely new section on Globalization and Social Movements.

Retains important emphasis on the giant thinkers and "makers" of the field: Gramsci on hegemony; Althusser on ideology; Horkheimer and Adorno on the culture industry; Raymond Williams on Marxist cultural theory; Habermas on the public sphere; McLuhan on media; Chomsky on propaganda; hooks and Mulvey on the subjects of visual pleasure and oppositional gazes.

Features a substantial critical introduction, short section introductions and full bibliographic citations.