Media and PowerMedia and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society. |
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... response to these questions provides both a clear introduction to media research and an innovative analysis of media power, and is written by one of the field's leading scholars. James Curran is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths ...
... responses to women doing 'men's jobs' with calm efficiency in Second World War films and magazines (Murphy 1992; Waller and Vaughan- Rees 1987). The expectations of women also increased. This was reflected, for example, in 1960s films ...
... response to 'the revolt of the masses' was ultimately to take refuge in obscurity and the avant garde. 'The early twentieth century', he writes, 'saw a determined effort, on the part of the European intelligentsia, to exclude the masses ...
... response of the cultural elite to the rise of mass culture is thus portrayed as either taking refuge in obscure intellectualism or enlisting the power of the state to impose elite preferences on the people. Much of populist history is ...
... response to the rise of a youth culture.27 Over twenty new offshore commercial radio stations were set up in the late 1950s and early 1960s. By 1965, two of these (Caroline North/South and Radio London) had captured a major share of the ...