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  1. Nationalisms and Sexualities

    Edited by Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, Patricia Yaeger

    Nationalisms and Sexualities departs from social scientific paradigms that treat nation and sexuality as discrete and autonomous entities. Its contributors respond instead to issues that redefine what is presently considered "the political:" the formation of sexual, gendered, racial, and/or class...

    Published December 5th 1991 by Routledge

  2. The Ideological Octopus

    By Justin Lewis

    Series: Studies in Culture and Communication

    Published November 21st 1991 by Routledge

  3. The Codes of Advertising

    Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society

    By Sut Jhally

    This book examines the commercial speech of advertising as a cultural phenomenon whose social significance far exceeds its economic influence. Jhally argues that by selling viewing time to advertisers, television converts audiences into laborers who "work" for the media in the same way that workers...

    Published December 11th 1990 by Routledge

  4. Consumption, Identity and Style

    Marketing, meanings, and the packaging of pleasure

    Edited by Alan Tomlinson

    Series: Comedia

    Published February 28th 1990 by Routledge

  5. No Respect

    Intellectuals and Popular Culture

    By Andrew Ross

    The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history and critique of modern American...

    Published July 2nd 1989 by Routledge

  6. Cultural Politics in Contemporary America

    Edited by Sut Jhally, Ian Angus

    The Hollywood Presidency of Ronald Reagan was founded on the skills of the 'Great Communicator'; Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' is used by the Chrysler Corporation to assure us that the 'pride is back'; feminists and right-wing militants converge to oppose pornography; racial tensions...

    Published December 7th 1988 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Media and Democratic Transition in South Korea
    By Ki-Sung Kwak
    To Be Published May 30th 2012
  2. Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies
    Edited by Mia Mask
    To Be Published June 6th 2012
  3. The Participatory Cultures Handbook
    Edited by Aaron Delwiche, Jennifer Jacobs Henderson
    To Be Published June 25th 2012
  4. Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction, 2nd Edition
    By Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca
    To Be Published July 11th 2012
  5. The Media Studies Reader
    Edited by Laurie Ouellette
    To Be Published July 15th 2012

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