Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader brings together classic statements and contemporary views that illustrate how everyday culture is as much a product of policy and economic determinants as it is of creative and consumer impulses.

Covers various aspects of television studies such as: theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television - Marxism, semiology and feminism; concepts which have shaped the study of television - narrative, representation and objectivity; television genres - soap opera, news and science fiction; and more.

Product Description: The most significant works in recent New Zealand theatre, Krishnan's Dairy, The Candlestickmaker, and The Pickle King form a loose trilogy connected by theme and theatrical style that explores three eternal questions: Will I find love? How can I find happiness? and What is worth preserving? Western theatrical traditions fuse with Indian flavors in the telling of three stories that are accessible to all cultures...read more

Product Description: "In this superb account of how the British and American news media represent everyday citizens and public opinion, the authors show how coverage of politics and policy debates subtly - even inadvertently - urge people to see themselves as and thus to be politically passive, disengaged and cynical...read more

Product Description: Based on extensive original research, Shoot First and Ask Questions Later provides a comprehensive analysis of media coverage of the war in Iraq in 2003. The authors look closely at the main actors involved through a broad range of interviews with journalists (both embedded and non-embedded), news editors, news heads, and with key planners at the Pentagon and the UK Ministry of Defence...read more

Product Description: Is polling a process that brings "science" into the study of society? Or are polls crude instruments that tell us little about the way people actually think? The role of public opinion polls in government and mass media has gained increasing importance with each new election or poll taken...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Compiles rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R&B through punk and rap

Product Description: Prompted by the questions and research approaches developed within the relatively new field of cultural studies, there has been a growing recognition of the need for audience analysis to be carried out from a cross-disciplinary perspective...read more

Analyzes the Cosby Show's audience, examining how television influences the way Americans think about race (view table of contents)

Product Description: At the beginning of the century, two activities dominated most people's lives: working and sleeping. As the end of the century approaches, we can add a third - watching television. We know remarkably little about watching TV, despite its cultural predominance and the forty years of research it has generated...read more

Product Description: In recent years, the arts world has sought to defend its corner in terms that tend to be untenable, while free marketeers have argued with increasing confidence that support for art and culture is best left to the market place. Justin Lewis suggests that the questions we should address is rather different: what of cultural value is the free market unable to provide? In so doing he confronts the issue of cultural and artistic values head on, and attempts to rescue cultural values from definitions that are elitist, unjust, and increasingly irrelevant...read more