Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-344) and index.
Contents:
The uses of literacy / Richard Hoggart. Mass persuasion : the social psychology of a war bond drive / Robert K. Merton -- Analysis of the film Don't Be a Sucker : a study in communication / Eunice Cooper, Helen Dinerman -- Tendency systems and the effects of a movie dealing with a social problem / Charles Winick -- Culture industry reconsidered / T.W. Adorno -- Seduction of the innocent / Fredric Wertham -- The uses of literacy / Richard Hoggart. Star gazing : Hollywood cinema and female spectatorship / Jackie Stacey. The nationwide audience / David Morley -- The practice of everyday life / Michel de Certeau -- Understanding popular culture / John Fiske -- 'We're here, we're queer and we're not going catalogue shopping' / Gregory Woods -- Visual pleasue and narrtive cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Babel and Bablylon : spectatorship in American silent film / Miriam Hansen -- Star gazing : Hollywood cinema and female spectatorship / Jackie Stacey. Reading the romance : women, patriarchy and popular literature / Janice Radway. 'Out of the closet and into the universe' : queers and Star Trek / Henry Jenkins -- Beatlemania : girls just want to have fun / Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, Gloria Jacobs -- Histories, fictions and Xena : Warrior Princess / Sara Gwenllian-Jones -- Suffering and solace : the genre of pain / Camille Bacon-Smith -- Inside subculture : the postmodern meaning of style / David Muggleton -- Reading the romance : women, patriarchy and popular literature / Janice Radway. The export of meaning : cross-cultural readings of Dallas / Tamar Liebes and Elihu Katz. Feminism and youth culture / Angela McRobbie -- Girl talk : adolescent magazines and their readers / Dawn H. Currie -- '"Just a book", she said...' : reconfiguring ethnography for the female readers of sexual fiction / Esther Sonnet -- Enlightened racism : The Cosby Show, audiences and the myth of the American dream / Sut Jhally, Justin Lewis -- The export of meaning : cross-cultural readings of Dallas / Tamar Liebes and Elihu Katz. Televison, ethnicity and cultural change / Marie Gillespie. Televison, ethnicity and cultural change / Marie Gillespie.
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