Covers the area of feminist media criticism. This edition discusses subjects including, alternative family structures, de-westernizing media studies, industry practices, "Sex and the City", Oprah, and "Buffy."

This book contrasts `the natural′ and `the global′ as interpretive strategies, using approaches from feminist cultural theory.

The Television Studies Book is a stimulating and challenging collection that analyzes how the study of television has developed and points to new approaches dealing with rapidly changing technologies and formats.

This book is a companion volume to the best-selling Mass Media and Society.

This collection, edited by Morag Shiach, brings together exciting work in feminism and cultural studies from different countries and different historical moments.

A Magazine of Her Own is at once a chronological tracing of the history, a collection of intriguing case studies and an intervention into recent debates about gender and sexuality in popular reading.

Throughout the essays the author returns to issues of livelihoods and earning a living in the cultural economy, while at the same time pressing the issue of cultural value.

Based on graduate research in the early 1990s at Goldsmiths College, London. The author's present affiliation is not stated. The book is distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

As part of the Understanding Contemporary Culture series this book is aimed at a broad range of students from undergraduate to graduate level, who want to know more and be fully informed on sport, its relationship to the media, and its ...

A major contribution to the social scientific understanding of how people make sense of their lives, Ideological Dilemmas presents an illuminating new approach to the study of everyday thinking.