The Indigenous Public Sphere is a fascinating and innovative account of the connections between textuality and citizenship. Focussing on the reporting and reception of Aboriginal affairs in the media, it has major implications for rethinking the study of journalism and ethnicity in national politics and public life.

Alan McKee presents a student friendly introduction to the analysis of cultural texts. The book highlights the cultural differences in interpretation with an array of fascinating examples. Textual Analysis is written in an accessible style with several useful case studies. Each chapter also includes exercises for classroom' - Jane Stokes, London Metropolitan University

McKee is a gifted practitioner of the skills he would teach in this book, as well as a lively and engaging writer and one who has a real commitment to making his ideas available to a larger...

This is an innovative book that addresses the question of how consumers make decisions about what is good and what is bad in popular culture.

• An entertaining and informative guide to the range of aesthetic criteria that goes into judging mass culture's most celebrated texts and objects - from Batman to motor bikes, and pop stars to internet pornography

• Brings together a series of accessible and engaging essays written by connoisseurs of various areas of popular culture

This is an innovative book that addresses the question of how consumers make decisions about what is good and what is bad in popular culture.
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This is an innovative book that addresses the question of how consumers make decisions about what is good and what is bad in popular culture.

• An entertaining and informative guide to the range of aesthetic criteria that goes into judging mass culture's most celebrated texts and objects - from Batman to motor bikes, and pop stars to internet pornography

• Brings together a series of accessible and engaging essays written by connoisseurs of various areas of popular culture

This is an innovative book that addresses the question of how consumers make decisions about what is good and what is bad in popular culture.
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Entertainment Industries is the first book to map entertainment as a cultural system. Including work from world-renowned analysts such as Henry Jenkins and Jonathan Gray, this innovative collection explains what entertainment is and how it works.

Entertainment is audience-centred culture. The Entertainment Industries are a uniquely interdisciplinary collection of evolving businesses that openly monitor evolving cultural trends and work within them. The producers of entertainment central to that practice are the new artists. They understand audiences and combine...

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More than this, the book argues that entertainment shows us...