Media and PowerMedia and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society. *How much power do the media have? *Who really controls the media? *What is the relationship between media and power in society? In this major new book, James Curran reviews the different answers which have been given, before advancing original interpretations in a series of ground-breaking essays. This book also provides a guided tour of the major debates in media studies. What part did the media play in the making of modern society? How did 'new media' change society in the past? Will radical media research recover from its mid-life crisis? Is public service television the dying product of the nation in an age of globalization? Media and Power provides both a clear introduction to media research and an innovative analysis of media power. |
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... values were strongly embedded in popular culture, and reinforced the subordination of women. Deviants from the gender order—such as weak, hen-pecked husbands—were regularly satirized in the popular ballads of the period. Traditional ...
... values were strongly embedded in popular culture, and reinforced the subordination of women. Deviants from the gender order—such as weak, hen-pecked husbands—were regularly satirized in the popular ballads of the period. Traditional ...
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... to subscribe to traditional gender values (Landy 1991:485). For example, a succession of Gainsborough film melodramas in the 1940s portrayed women in acts of rebellion against gendered understandings of 'duty' 12 Media history.
... to subscribe to traditional gender values (Landy 1991:485). For example, a succession of Gainsborough film melodramas in the 1940s portrayed women in acts of rebellion against gendered understandings of 'duty' 12 Media history.
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... values,18 but that by the 1980s and 1990s they offered more varied and less stereotypical depictions of women.19 For example, some young women's magazines offered more liberated definitions of femininity than their predecessors ...
... values,18 but that by the 1980s and 1990s they offered more varied and less stereotypical depictions of women.19 For example, some young women's magazines offered more liberated definitions of femininity than their predecessors ...
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... values of hierarchy. Above all, it is represented as marking a real breakthrough in which the media were converted into becoming major sources of popular pleasure. This narrative has obvious parallels with populist cultural studies.21 ...
... values of hierarchy. Above all, it is represented as marking a real breakthrough in which the media were converted into becoming major sources of popular pleasure. This narrative has obvious parallels with populist cultural studies.21 ...
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... values are embodied by art and literature of transcendant quality. It was the duty of a natural aristocracy, constituted by its taste and discernment, to uphold these values against the rising tide of commercial philistinism. Carey ...
... values are embodied by art and literature of transcendant quality. It was the duty of a natural aristocracy, constituted by its taste and discernment, to uphold these values against the rising tide of commercial philistinism. Carey ...
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