Marris P., Thornham S. Media studies: A Reader

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. — 562 p. — ISBN: 0748607781.Media Studies: A Reader contains all of the classic texts which reflect the development of the field in Britain. With its rigorous content and comprehensive coverage, the book provides all the essential readings in one volume. The combination of a broad selection of texts together with clearly written and relevant commentaries to each section means the book is an ideal text for classroom use and home-based learning.Introduction: About this ReaderStudying the Media: Some IntroductionsMass communication. Popular Taste and Organized Social Action (Paul F. LazarsfeJd and Robert K. Merton)
Culture Industry Reconsidered (Theodor W. Adorno)
The Medium is the Message (Marshall McLuhan)
'Mass Communication' and 'Minority Culture' (Raymond Williams)
Encoding/Decoding (Stuart Hall)
The Power of the Image (Annette Kuhn)
The Public Sphere (Jurgen Habermas)
The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media (Jean Baudrillard)
On the Cultural Industries (Nicholas Gamham)
The Media and the State (Colin Sparks)
Concentration and Ownership in the Era of Privatization (Graham Murdoch)
Producers in British Television (Jeremy Tunstall)
The BBC and the 1956 Suez Crisis (Asa Briggs)Text: Codes and StructuresRadio Signs (Andrew Crisell)
The Codes of Television (John Fiske)
Programming as Sequence or Flow (Raymond Williams)
Broadcast TV Narration (John Ellis)Ideology and GenreRacist Ideologies and the Media (Stuart Hall)
Fictions and Ideologies: The Case of Simation Comedy (Janet Woollacott)
Progressive Television and Documentary Drama (John Caughie)
Televised Chat and the Synthetic Personality (Andrew Toison)Feminist ReadingsSurvival Skills and Daydreams (Janice Winship)
Cagney & Lacey Feminist Strategies of Detection (Danae Clark)
The Page Three Girl Speaks to Women, Too (Patricia Holland)'Postmodern' MediaWhose Imaginary? The Televisual Apparatus, the Female Body and Textual Strategies in Select Rock Videos on MTV (E. Ann Kaplan)
Postmodernism and Popular Culture (Angela McRobbie)Reception: 'Effects' to 'Uses'Desensitization. Violence and the Media (Hans Eysenck and D. K. B. Nias)
On the Social Effects of Television (James D. Halloran)
The Television. Audience: A Revised Perspective (Denis McQuail, Jay G Blunder and J. R. Brown)
Uses and Gratifications Research: A Critique (Phillip Elliott)The Politics of ReadingCultural Transformations: The Politics of Resistance (David Morley)
Housewives and the Mass Media (Dorothy Hobson)
Wanted: Audiences. On the Politics of Empirical Audience Studies (Ien Ang)
Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home (Ann Gray)
Moments of Television: Neither the Text nor the Audience (John Fiske)Case StudiesSoap OperaEastEnders: Creating the Audience (David Buckingham)
The Continuous Serial: A Definition (Christine Geraghty)
The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas (Tama Modleski)
Dallas and Feminism (Ien Aug)
Crossroads: Notes on Soap Opera (Charlotte Brunsdon)
Everything Stops for Crossroads: Watching with the Audience (Dorothy Hobson)NewsNews Values and News Production + Bias. Objectivity and ideology (Peter Golding and Philip Eliott)
The Production of Radio and Television News (Philip Schlesinger)
The Social Production of News (Stuart Hall, Chas. Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts)
The Falklands conflict: The Home Front (Glasgow University Media Group)
When a Woman Reads the News (Patricia Holland)
News Content and Audience Belief (Greg Philo)AdvertisingAdvertising: The Magic System (Raymond Williams)
The Impact of Advertising on the British Mass Media (James Curran)
Understanding Advertisers (Kathy Myers)
Decoding Advertisements (Judith Williamson)
Handling Sex (Janice Winship)
Discriminating or Duped? Young People as Consumers of Advertising/Art (Mica Nave and Orson Nave)
Consumer Culture and the Aura of the Commodity (Alan Tomlinson)