Books in the Communication and Society series

Offering an booklength exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV.

Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last two decades. Ellen Mickiewicz's volume challenges us to consider how television has become Mikhail Gorbachev's most powerful instrument for paving the way for major reform. Mickiewicz explores the changes in programming that have occurred as a result of glasnost.

Examines the debate about popular fiction in the last two decades and its position within popular culture, with reference to crime fiction, soap opera, romance and TV sitcoms.

A classic study of the workings of the Hollywood television industry. The reader is taken behind the scenes to see how shows get their air time and how they are shaped by the political and cultural climate of the time.

A collection of essays on the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film and television. It examines the conflicts between the subject's right to privacy, the public's right to know, and the film-maker's right as an artist.

In a series of case studies from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the contributors explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national contexts, and the effects of globalization.

The first comprehensive study of the international popular music industry. The book examines how the industry is responding to the need to produce global starand discusses the effect of new media technologies.

This text addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society: how much power do the media have? who really controls the media? and what is the relationship between media and power in society.

The first collection of cultural studies essays from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.

A fresh and innovative combination of previously published work and influential new thinking. It is an indispensable aid to the study of journalism and media history.