The Media in Britain brings together a range of distinguished and newer scholars to provide a comprehensive and engaging review of contemporary debates in media studies. The first and second parts discuss the principal media industries in Britain before looking at the impact of media policy on their structure and activities. The final part encompasses a range of analyses of diverse media and cultural texts, selected for their intrinsic interest value and to illustrate the wealth of approaches and methods which can be adopted with a view to interpreting and analyzing the contemporary British...