Reading Into Cultural Studies revisits a selection of key texts central to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline and as a project. These texts address questions of power, ideology and the possibilities and limits of resistance. Each of the eleven essays in the collection renews an early study in one area of cultural investigation, bringing such seminal texts as Subculture by Dick Hebdige, Loving With a Vengeance by Tania Modleski and Bond and Beyond by Tony Bennett back to the centre of attention, However the essays are not purely celebratory. Each study is critically examined in...
Reading Into Cultural Studies revisits a selection of key texts central to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline and as a project. These t...
The influence of the media is a contentious issue. Every time a particularly high-profile crime of violence is committed, there are those who blame the effects of the media. The familiar culprits of cinema, television, video and rock music, have now been joined, particularly in the wake of the massacre at Columbine High, by the Internet and the World Wide Web. Yet, any real evidence that the media do actually have such negative effects remains as elusive as ever and, consequently, the debate about effects frequently ends up as being little more than strident and rhetorical appeals to common...
The influence of the media is a contentious issue. Every time a particularly high-profile crime of violence is committed, there are those who blame th...
Between 1949 and 1955 Britain was swept by a rising tide of panic about -American-style- or -horror- comics. The British press cried out in alarm: -Now Ban This Filth That Poisons Our Children, - -Drive Out the Horror Comics.- As one frenzied columnist protested: -I feel as though I have been trudging through a sewer. Here is a terrible twilight zone between sanity and madness . . . peopled by monsters, grave robbers, human flesh eaters.- A campaign against ghoulish comic books climaxed in an Act of Parliament making it illegal to publish or sell any material in comic form deemed to be...
Between 1949 and 1955 Britain was swept by a rising tide of panic about -American-style- or -horror- comics. The British press cried out in alarm: ...
Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film, and has been widely written about. But how have audiences engaged with it? This book presents the - sometimes very surprising - results of a major audience research project, exploring how people remember and continue to engage with the film.
Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film, and has been widely written about. But how have audiences engaged wi...
The study of audience relations with star / celebrity culture has often been marginalised in Star/Celebrity Studies. This book brings together new research which explores a range of audience encounters with celebrities, moving across social media, royal weddings, national identity to questions of age, gender and class. In doing so, the essays illuminate the complex and negotiated nature of audience investments in celebrity culture, collectively questioning the often simplistic and dismissive judgements that are made about audience/ celebrity relationships in this regard. The book provides...
The study of audience relations with star / celebrity culture has often been marginalised in Star/Celebrity Studies. This book brings together new ...
