288 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies.
Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface of media and cultural studies, cultural geography and anthropology.
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Introduction Part 1: Disciplinary Dilemmas: Canons and Orthodoxies 1. So-Called Cultural Studies: Dead Ends and Reinvented Wheels 2. Cultural Studies and Media Studies: Contexts, Coundaries and Politics Part 2: Methodological Matters: Interdisciplinary Approaches 3. Methodological Problems and Research Practices: Opening up the Black Box 4. Visions of the Real: The Ethnographic Arts Part 3: The Geography of Modernity and the Orientation of the Future 5. EurAm, Modernity, Reason and Alterity: After the West? 6. Beyond Global Abstraction: Regional Theory and the Spatialisation of History Part 4: Domesticity, Mediation and the Technologies of 'Newness' 7. Public Issues and Intimate Histories: Mediation, Domestication and Dis-Location 8. Rhetorics of the Technological Sublime: the Paradoxes of Technical Rationality Part 5: Techno-Anthropology: Icons, Totems and Fetishes 9. Television: not so much a Visual Medium, more a Visible Object 10. Magical Technologies: the New, the Shiny and the Symbolic Coda 11. Marvels and Wonders: Modernity, Tradition and Technology
Biography
David Morley
'A good historical introduction to British cultural studies' - Cultural Geographies
