Books in the Communications and Culture series

Art theory', understood as those forms of aesthetics, art history and criticism which began in the Enlightenment and culminated in 'high modernism', is now at an end.

Videography is an attempt to discover the conditions under which it is possible to speak, write and teach about the electronic media. A theoretical section tests the claims of various theses in art history, media and cultural theory to account for the variety of video practice in the contemporary scene.

This interdisciplinary book explores women's narratives in a wide variety of media and genre, from soap opera and film to the post-modern novel and Shakespearian drama. In doing so, it raises issues to do with closure and temporal and spatial dislocation, drawing on themes of passion, paranoia and desire.

This book has been a standard text for cultural studies and the sociology of art since its first appearance in 1981. It provides a clear and useful overview of theories and studies which contribute to the project of a sociology of art, ranging from sociology to art history, literary theory, feminism and media studies.

An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.

The social sciences are still predominantly modernist disciplines and, as such, products of the Enlightenment. Postmodernism and the Social Sciences examines the nature and potential of this postmodernist challenge in each of the major social sciences.

Neither a manifesto nor a one-sided critique, this new book introduces a number of original essays exploring various aspects of that contemporary cultural phenomenon named postmodernism.